Category: Geeks r Us
Ok guys, First of all, this is my six hundredth post! Ok, I'm done with that now, on to my question.
Ok, I had a bunch of M4P files. I burned them to CDS, ripped them to make them MP3's (hah got around that barrier apple), and put them on my desktop. But, when I play them in winamp their extremely quiet, quieter then my other files, that I just moved from my jump drive to the desktop. In itunes, theirs an option when u burn to have it run sound check, to double check and make sure that all the files will be the same volume. Is their a way to get this in winamp, so that either the files will be put louder, or they will all go quiet? I'm kinda hoping for the first option. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Mike.
There is a DSP plugin you can get for Winamp called AudioStocker which acts as a normalizer/compressor. The down side to it is that it does apply some compression to your audio files, however this is only very light at it's lowest setting and the upside, of course, is that it will normalize everything, or if you prefer layman speak, make everything play at approximately the same level.
I'm afraid I don't have a link for you if you wish to try AudioStocker, but I'm sure that just putting that into Google will get you the desired result.
If nobody else has any better suggestions, I hope that will help.
Dan.
If you want audio stocker, let me know and I can send it to you. I have a whole package of Winamp plugins and that's one of the ones that came with it.
Thanks dez.
Ok, that plugin can't help. Well, it can, but I can't use shoutcast with it. I'm using goldwave, and doubling the songs volumes. Their matching up now with the other songs.
I too am an online broadcaster using shoutcast and you can get it to work depending on what output engine you're using in Winamp to play music. I use the SQR crossfader. If you use that plug in for playing music, then it has a DSP tab in it's configoration and you can set AudioStocker to work from there instead of directly in Winamps DSP plug in list. Then it works fine with Shoutcast.
The alternative is to change to the Sam encoders. AudioStocker comes ready to work with those. I only don't because I had terrible issues with Sam and found Shoutcast to be better but you should be okay doing things that way, especially if you're still running XP. I'm not and I think that's a lot of the trouble. There seemed to be some conflict between Winamp, Sam and Vista.
Dan.
Thanks a lot. I might try that.
I can help you with the SQR crossfader too, it also came in that pack of plugins I have.
Again, thanks a lot dez. Your a lifesaver.
No problem. I feel special.