Thursday, 02 May 2019
Can I make all my MP3 files play at the same volume?
There are a couple of Winamp plugins for normalizing the volume of songs as you play them – they don’t actually change the MP3 files on disk at all, they just try to make Winamp play at a «standard» volume. You can download these plugins from the main Winamp site (www.winamp.com). Strangely enough they are not under Plugins / Output (which is where I would have put them) – one is under Plugins / General and the other under Plugins / Effects.
As for making the actual MP3 files themselves standard… I doubt it. I think, if you want to do this, you’ll have to decode them to WAV files, normalize the volume of the WAV files (which can be done, for example, using the Maximize / Normalize Volume function in Goldwave, from www.goldwave.com), then re-encode them.
There’s a normalizing plugin you can download from the Winamp site (www.winamp.com) which will normalize your playback in Winamp. It’s called AudioStocker, and you can find it under Plugins / Effects.
Some CD burning programs will normalize your MP3 files as part of the burning process. MP3 CD Maker has this feature (but I never got it to successfully burn a single track, myself). I believe latest releases of other programs may do it too (Nero?)
What I actually do myself is convert the tracks I want to burn to WAV files (using Winamp) and then edit each track using Goldwave (www.goldwave.com), and one of the editing functions I perform is to adjust the volume (using the Edit / Volume / Maximise function) if it seems appropriate.
