"Disable" Sound Check

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"Disable" Sound Check

There has been much discussion about the pros and cons of Sound Check, and some excellent details are provided about how it works and how difficult a process it is to standardize volume. Generally, I'm happy with the feature with one exception: live concerts, especially with songs that segue, like a Dead or Zappa concert. If I want to listen to the contiguous show, sometimes there are significant swings in volume between tracks. Yes, joining tracks is one option, but that creates very long "songs." I could also go track by track and manually set each song's volume to some standard, but my ear ain't that good. So my questions:

(1) After tracks have been imported and Sound Checked, is there a way to reset a certain group of songs to the original, non-varying, un-Sound Checked volume level?

(2) If not, can I re-import the concerts and somehow maintain the consistent volume level for the tracks that make up each show? Would I have to turn off Sound Check in perpetuity to do this?

Thanks for any suggestions

Dell Inspiron 8200 Windows XP

Posted on Dec 23, 2005 11:25 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 25, 2006 6:01 PM in response to emenyaminal

I am personally trying to figure out whether the sound check is functional when you have it plugged into another device through the dock connector. I still haven't found the answer yet but for your question I believe there is a simple answer, right click on each song and adjust the vloume manually via the "playback" drop down option and that should do it. Otherwise you should be able do deactivate the "sound check" feature/delete those live songs/re-import them without the sound check then they should be in the standard volume level you are used to. My problem is that I didn't figure out that there even was a sound check feature until I was done importing all 14,000 songs in my collection and when I listen to the ipod through my Alpine car stereo which attaches through the dock connector and not the headphone the volumes are extremely eratic and the BASS is sometimes intolerably high (or low if you want to be technical) hope this helped

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Buegie

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Mar 4, 2006 9:32 AM in response to sykosirkus

Sound Check works well on an iPod when listening through the headphones. Works on all iPods, as far as I know.

Some iPods have their 'Line Out' audio (Dock Connector) affected by Sound Check, others do not.

If may be iPod 'Generational' differences &/or Firmware differences - I do not know. The only way to determine if the Sound Check feature works via the Dock is to perform some simple tests (if you have the appropriate connections).

I determined that my 2Gen iPod mini with Firmware v1.3 does not pass Sound Checked audio via the Dock. Makes it more work to manually adjust the volume in my car (via a Direct Interface) or my home speakers.

See this thread for more information: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1683429#1683429

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