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Question regarding iTunes and iPod Photo

u.huth (apparently) - 11:19am Dec 9, 2007 PST
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Hi all,

I've bought an iPod Photo to replace my PowerMac 6100 connected to my
stereo...

On the PowerMac 6100 SoundJam MP was running with OS 8.1, the titles were
set to the same volume with MediaRage Pro and everything was fine.

iTunes oughta set the volume of all titles to the same level when playing
and this setting oughta be transferred to the iPod, too. No such luck...

Playing songs through the stereo from the iPod results in some titles being
barely audible, others blowing your ears off. (Setting "Sound check" to "On"
or "Off" on the iPod doesn't make any difference... - "Sound Check is
activated in iTunes' preferences...)

Is there some hidden setting, I didn't notice or is the iPod just not able
to play songs at the same level through my stereo?

Any hints, tips, or tricks would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Udo

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SteveJ1 - Dec 11, 2007 5:12 pm (#1 Total: 1)

Posts: 25

Re: Question regarding iTunes and iPod Photo

In my experience, Sound Check is entirely pathetic. Doesn't normalize the volume properly on my Macs, on my iPod Photo, on my iPod Classic, or on my daughter's gen-1 Shuffle. Seems strange that they haven't managed in all their iTunes and iPod revs to develop (or appropriate) a normalization algorithm that works. Clearly there are some. I always burn mix CDs with Toast 8, since the normalization in Toast 8 (and prior to that, in Jam) seems to work quite well. The only pain with that is the need to burn DRM tunes from iTunes onto a CD in order to add them to a Toast playlist. I never buy DRM from iTunes any more, only iTunes Plus (and I've bought a *lot* more iTunes music since iTunes Plus was implemented!).

--Steve--

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