Determining Song Volume - what does it mean?

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Determining Song Volume - what does it mean?

Just opened iTunes and it said in the area where info displays "determining song volume". It then proceeded to analyse over 900 songs. Then stopped and was ok until I connected ipod and it did same again. I have lots more music than this so it only did a small amount of the total. Closed pc down and restarted and all seems ok now.

I have an external drive for my music which was connected at the time.

I have latest iTunes and iPod software and have never seen this before (had iPod for over 1 year).

Any ideas?

Thanks

Posted on Aug 30, 2005 2:50 PM

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Answer 1

Aug 30, 2005 2:56 PM in response to Martin Stewart1

Hi Martin
In iTunes go to edit>preferences>audio and see if you have a check mark in the box "Sound Check".

Larry

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Answer 2

DJ Sho

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Aug 30, 2005 2:58 PM in response to Martin Stewart1

Martin,

Under iTunes>Preferences, your "use sound check" was checked off. What it does is determine the volume of your music in order to keep a uniform volume level across tracks. Sounds like you started off importing music to your external with this option unchecked and then at some time checked it off. When you connected your external and iTunes recognized tracks that had not been "normalized" it did so for you. Now that it has been done for the entirety of your library, iTunes functions normally.

So long as your music sounds fine, I think everything will be ok.

hope this helps

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Answer 3

Aug 30, 2005 3:09 PM in response to DJ Sho

Guys what can I say. You are bang on correct. I must have checked "use sound check" because when I looked it was checked! Thanks for the replies, appreciate your time. Nice to know iPod is happy.

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Answer 4

Aug 30, 2005 3:11 PM in response to Martin Stewart1

Martin,

Glad WE could help.
Good Luck!

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DJ Sho

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Aug 30, 2005 3:13 PM in response to Martin Stewart1

Ditto

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Answer 6

Pete K

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Sep 26, 2005 5:00 PM in response to Martin Stewart1

The problem is that it doesn't transfer those settings for the iPod. It's only for iTunes. How do you equalize the volume levels from song to song on the iPod?

-Pk

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Answer 7

Sep 26, 2005 5:34 PM in response to DJ Sho

Does the Sound Check option change your music files at all? Will the music be the same if you uncheck that box and switch it all back?

As far as the iPod goes ... I know there's a Soundcheck option on the iPod. Whether or not it pulls that data from iTunes I am not sure.

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