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  • eggerty

    • Jul 2011
    • 41

    iTunes NORM values

    Is it possible to have a DSP effect which will create iTunes NORM values by either reading the file or by converting Replaygain values?
  • BrodyBoy
    dBpoweramp Guru

    • Sep 2011
    • 777

    #2
    Re: iTunes NORM values

    +1 That'd be nice.

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    • garym
      dBpoweramp Guru

      • Nov 2007
      • 5878

      #3
      Re: iTunes NORM values

      Don't know about dbpa, but mp3tag has an "action" that can automatically create the NORM values for use in itunes from either the track or album level replaygain values. It is nice to be able to do this.

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      • BrodyBoy
        dBpoweramp Guru

        • Sep 2011
        • 777

        #4
        Re: iTunes NORM values

        Originally posted by garym
        Don't know about dbpa, but mp3tag has an "action" that can automatically create the NORM values for use in itunes from either the track or album level replaygain values. It is nice to be able to do this.
        Have you ever tried it....and does it work well? I use mp3tag a lot and never noticed that option. I don't really have much need for normalization, but for the occasional album that's noticeably louder/quieter, this would be a great solution if it works well.

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        • garym
          dBpoweramp Guru

          • Nov 2007
          • 5878

          #5
          Re: iTunes NORM values

          Originally posted by BrodyBoy
          Have you ever tried it....and does it work well? I use mp3tag a lot and never noticed that option. I don't really have much need for normalization, but for the occasional album that's noticeably louder/quieter, this would be a great solution if it works well.
          Yes. works well. I have a mirror of my flac files that are mp3 files (created by dbpa) and for all these I use the mp3tag action to create ITUNORM (soundcheck values) from the ReplayGain tags. In my case I use the RG album value rather than the track value, as I prefer this volume adjustment. I've done this on about 67,000 files.

          You'll need to setup an action to do this. See this post (and thread).
          I have a mixture of mp3, mp4 and m4a files as correctly tagged as I can manage (the mp3 tagging is ID3v1 and ID3v2.4). I have used Foobar to replaygain all files. These files are going to be used for two reasons, to listen to at home using Foobar and on the road using iPod (which I don't have as yet!!) It is my understanding that iPods cannot read replaygain values but that MP3Tag can be used to convert the replaygain tags into a format which can be read by the iPod. Can somebody please help...

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