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

[mousepod]

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.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by mousepod

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

Yes, but if you have a large library it can take hours to set up - or so it was for me.

[wendybeth]

I don't have an IPod- I have a V-Cast phone and and access to their music library, with over a million tunes available.

Sounds awesome, and I can make calls with it!

[Stan4dSteph]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

I don't have an IPod- I have a V-Cast phone and and access to their music library, with over a million tunes available.

Sounds awesome, and I can make calls with it!

I've got one of those, but I don't have the V-Cast service. It's not available in Smallbany.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by mousepod

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

I have that enabled on both my iTunes and iPod and it isn't working. I'll try it again at home and see if there's something I'm not doing right.
Thanks, mp.