Most of us have a huge collection of digital music that we call our own.

Usually, albums and songs have been added irregularly over the year from many, many different sources.

That’s whereMP3Gaincomes in.

Gboard’s editing mode on an Android phone.

MP3Gain, does statistical analysis to determine how loud a file sounds to the human ear.

Most other normalizers work withpeak normalization, normalizing a song’s value based on its loudest passage.

The program was primarily written for Windows.

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However, there is aLinux GUIand aMacMP3Gainversion available.

So how does it work?

It’s pretty simple.

The file explorer on the Dell XPS 14 9440.

You add files or folders and set the target volume.

The default is 89,0 dB.

In other tools, you will find up to 92,0 dB as a default volume for normalization.

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When you have added all files you wish to normalize, click theAnalysisbutton.

From there, you’re able to select either Track or Album analysis in the pull-down menu.

MP3Gain now analyzes each file to check the current volume and whether the file has clipping issues.

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The Track Gain indicates the increase or decrease in volume required to match the target volume.

you’re free to flush the results by selecting Clear Analysis from the Analysis button pull-down menu.

The included help file does a very good job of explaining what the differences are.

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MP3Gain should solve the issue of varying volume levels in any MP3 collection easily!

What else would you like to know?

We appreciate your feedback and requests!

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