Normalise Audio?

[pommybloke]

Hi,

I use a MacBook and am using an audio midi interface.

I have all of my songs ripped to my hard drive.

Is there a way to normalise the audio output? Quite a few songs I have played so far are coming out at different volumes.

Thanks,
Paul.

[dave]

kJams at this time does not have a "normalize audio" function.

but you can set a volume on each song which the song will remember, and re-apply next time it is played.
http://karaoke.kjams.com/wiki/Volume

[pommybloke]

OK thanks Dave.

In that case, I may have another question.

I have been advised that I could run MacMP3Gain on all of the MP3 files to normalise.

The problem is that all of my files are in a mix of folders and some are zipped and some unzipped.

If I unzip the ones that are zipped into the same folder, will Kjams lose the file? Would I then have to relink?

[dave]

i think that would be a very bad idea. you'd destroy your library, unless this MacMP3Gain can unzip, fix, rezip and replace the original.

[dizzidecazz]

I'm going to try an experiment using a few things i've found on this forum
- export all files command
- finder search for all zip files in the resulting export folder
- select all and open the resulting search results to unzip all the files
- search again then delete zip files
- use this MP3Gain meta normaliser
- use the script i found on this forum for re-zipping the paired files
- clear and rebuild the kJams Library with the resulting files.

Hopefully, I'll have a lovely, organised library with consistent levels.

I'll report back. wish me luck.

[dave]

i wish you luck. keep a backup.