OMG! Loud music causes hearing loss?!?!?!

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I wish there was a program somewhere that would even out the volume of the songs for me on my iPod. Some songs are louder than others.
'Lose Control' by Missy Elliott totally blew my ears away after listening to 'History Repeating' by the Lemonheads/Shirley Bassey the other day. I'm not sure why, but Missy was wayyy wayyy louder.

There is, and it's right there on your iPod. It's called "Sound Check" and can be found under Settings.

When Sound Check is on, iTunes scans the songs in your library and computes characteristics of their playback volume. As new songs are added, iTunes computes this information in the background. This data is stored in either the "normalization information" ID3 tag or the iTunes Music Library database. The audio data in your music files is never changed. If you encode or "rip" a song with iTunes, the sound check level is stored in the song's ID3 tags. For songs that were encoded with iTunes 1 or iTunes 2, or another application, the sound check levels are stored in the iTunes Music Library database.
Sound Check settings can be uploaded to iPod. However, the Sound Check settings can only be transferred to iPod when iTunes' Sound Check option is enabled.

iPod only uses these values if the Sound Check setting in iPod's Settings menu is set to On.