customisable volume normalisation for burning

[StillWater]

The CD-burning program I used to use (Stomp RecordNow Max) had this, and I found it to be invaluable.

When trying to make your output CD have an acceptably uniform level of volume throughout all tracks, sometimes a slight normalisation is enough (eg. 90%). However, sometimes some MP3's on your playlist are much louder than others, and you will need to make normalisation as strong as 50-60% to make it work acceptably. So, it's being able to have a customisable setting for this (especially since normalisation affects the sound quality, so you want to have the control that allows you to use it as sparingly as you are able to).

[gaekwad2]

If you're using simple peak normalization you should try mp3gain or replaygain instead.

[StillWater]

sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by mp3gain or replaygain :confused:

[gaekwad2]

http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

It scans the whole file and adjusts the gain information to get the same average volume.

Here (http://heaven.ravenquest.net/gfx/junk/20.jpg)'s an illustration, standard normalizers work similarly as 'max noclip gain' (or even worse if they don't scan the whole file beforehand).

[StillWater]

I downloaded it and checked it out. Awesome! It reads M3u files, so I can make a playlist in winamp, then just run mp3gain before I burn it, and it will correct them all losslessly! Brilliant. Thanks, man :)

I had just purchased winamp Pro (with money I shouldn't really have spent), and was worried for a second that the fast burning wasn't going to be much good since so many of my mp3s are at varying volumes. But this mp3gain should do the trick :)