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Equalizing Volume for Playlists

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July 31, 2021
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Hello: I’ve created a number of playlists with various songs from all genres downloaded on my desktop computer. However when I listen to and play back the playlist using my Play1 speaker, many of the songs, because they were recorded at different volume levels, don’t play at the same volume level. Some songs play back louder than others and as a result I am continuously having to increase or decrease the volume on the Play1 speaker, depending on the song.

Is there a way to set the volume on the Sonos app or Play1 speaker so that the songs on the playlists play back at equal or the same volume levels?

Apreciate any help or insight.

Thanks.

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Best answer by Ken_Griffiths

Perhaps see the reply/answer from Sonos Staff in this thread…

A very good tag editor that’s perhaps worth exploring is mp3Tag, but the choice of tag-editing software is entirely upto you. I’m not associated to the software, other than I occasionally use it myself.

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ratty

You don’t “add any files to the MP3Gain site”. You download the software to your PC and run it there.

As for Sonos, it would simply pick up the modified files automatically. No need to “update” the library or recompose your playlists.

ratty

It will read the ‘new’ tag information when it plays the file.

In fact MP3Gain doesn’t add gain adjustment tags (though it does store analysis results and undo information). It modifies the actual audio data within the MP3 file.

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oaky7Author

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Thanks for your help ratty. Very much appreciated.

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oaky7Author

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Thank you Airetlam, much appreciated.

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oaky7Author

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Sorry guys, last question. When I drag and drop the music folder from my desktop into the mp3gain player and the process completes (volume equalized at 89.0 for all the songs in the music folder), do I have to drag the folder back to my desktop form the mp3gain player or will the same music folder, still on my desktop, have picked up the changes?

Thanks.

ratty

As far as I can recall the files are modified by MP3Gain in situ. Look at the date-time-modified on the files.

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oaky7Author

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Thanks againratty

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oaky7Author

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When I clear all the files from the MP3Gain player, so that it’s empty, and then drag and drop the music folder on my desktop back into the MP3Gain player, all the files reappear with the volume for each file displayed at around 89.0. Does this mean the volume for the songs in the music folder on my desktop have all been normalized at arouind the same level now?

Thanks.

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