Media Players and volume control...
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I know this is probably rather obscure, but... Has anyone run across a plugin or something for MediaPlayer or RealPlayer that would limit the volume to a certain level by increasing the volume when it got too low and decreasing the volume when output was too high? Somewhere I thought I heard that this was available on some TVs a while back, and assume there is software somewhere that can do the same thing for a computer. The basic problem is that I like to listen to things at work, but the volume changes drastically sometimes, so I either can't hear anything but a murmur, or my ears are getting blown out. :eek: Manually returning to the player to adjust the volume every time it goes out of range gets to be really annoying... Any advice? Thanks. :) John
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I know this is probably rather obscure, but... Has anyone run across a plugin or something for MediaPlayer or RealPlayer that would limit the volume to a certain level by increasing the volume when it got too low and decreasing the volume when output was too high? Somewhere I thought I heard that this was available on some TVs a while back, and assume there is software somewhere that can do the same thing for a computer. The basic problem is that I like to listen to things at work, but the volume changes drastically sometimes, so I either can't hear anything but a murmur, or my ears are getting blown out. :eek: Manually returning to the player to adjust the volume every time it goes out of range gets to be really annoying... Any advice? Thanks. :) John
Some MP3 Encoders (eg Audio Catalyst) can 'normalise' MP3 audio volume. ie if the volume is above a set hi percentage, or below a set lo percentage, the audio file is adjusted to a level you set. I haven't heard of anything similar for other audio formats. If you want to convert to MP3 from various sources (all at different volume levels), this may work, but you will have to spend some time converting all the files you want to listen to. I know of nothing that does this on the fly. Paresh Solanki A Completly Random Ordering Never Yields Meaning
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I know this is probably rather obscure, but... Has anyone run across a plugin or something for MediaPlayer or RealPlayer that would limit the volume to a certain level by increasing the volume when it got too low and decreasing the volume when output was too high? Somewhere I thought I heard that this was available on some TVs a while back, and assume there is software somewhere that can do the same thing for a computer. The basic problem is that I like to listen to things at work, but the volume changes drastically sometimes, so I either can't hear anything but a murmur, or my ears are getting blown out. :eek: Manually returning to the player to adjust the volume every time it goes out of range gets to be really annoying... Any advice? Thanks. :) John
John Fisher wrote: The basic problem is that I like to listen to things at work, but the volume changes drastically sometimes That is a sympton of listening to pirated MP3s.... :-D Of course the reason I know this is obvious... :) Does anyone else feel that most pirated MP3s are terribly done? My pet hates are thousands of un-named and un-classified (no genre) files. Also the wildly different volume levels are an absolute pain in the ass. Thankfully my legally bought CD collection is big enough now to rip and listen to rather than trawling the web for cut rate MP3s. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge
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John Fisher wrote: The basic problem is that I like to listen to things at work, but the volume changes drastically sometimes That is a sympton of listening to pirated MP3s.... :-D Of course the reason I know this is obvious... :) Does anyone else feel that most pirated MP3s are terribly done? My pet hates are thousands of un-named and un-classified (no genre) files. Also the wildly different volume levels are an absolute pain in the ass. Thankfully my legally bought CD collection is big enough now to rip and listen to rather than trawling the web for cut rate MP3s. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge
That's news to me. (I'm not sure if I have even one MP3 on my hard drive...) The reason I've got the problem is from Internet Radio stations with large volume shifts at certain times of the day. John