How can I normalize the sound levels in several different audio/MP3 files?
I have a given set of MP3 audio files of varying audio levels. I would like to know how I can automatically normalize all of these files, so the volume is amplified/raised on the quieter files, and lowered/muted on the louder files.
How can I go about accomplishing this?
17 Answers
5MP3Gain does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear. Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding.
Though I think Audacity is more reknown
1Audacity is great, but you might also want to check out Levelator.
Levelator adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file and it runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
I hope this helps.
Audiograbber will normalize the volume level of audio. It does a nice job of it:
Audiograbber is a beautiful piece of software that grabs digital audio from cd's. Audiograbber can automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and encode them to a variety of formats including MP3. Audiograbber can download and upload disc info from freedb, an Internet compact disc database. You can even record your vinyl LP's or cassette tapes with Audiograbber and make wav's or MP3's of them.
If a command line utility is ok, I'd definitely recommend normalize.
I especially appreciate the batch mode with which you can normalise an album while preserving the relative volume levels of the tracks.
1On Windows, I do it within my music player, foobar2000.
mediamonkey will set replay-gain idv3 fields of your mp3 files quite nicely.
highlight the file(s) and right-click [Analyze Volume] to set the replay-gain fields.
I think it can do it automatically as well (config option someplace)
lifehacker also has a discussion about this:
