Normalizing Volume when burning CD's

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Normalizing Volume when burning CD's

I am having trouble when creating CD's. I have tried adjusting the level of each song manually. I have tried clicking the Sound Check "on" under the Burning preferences. Either way, when i burn CD's with tracks from different sources, the volume of songs are still not normalized. Ones imported from one CD come out louder than ones imported from other CD's. I have tried this on several different discs, and none of them seem to work. They sound equalized when i play them through the computer, but not when i burn them to disc, then play them on my home stereo. Can someone explain if there is a solution?

iMac G3, Mac OS X (10.3.9), I have an old iMac G3 & the latest version of iTunes.

Posted on Jan 15, 2006 9:45 AM

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Answer 1

macmenno

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Jan 15, 2006 11:25 AM in response to comiconline

Sound Check in the Burning preferences does not function well in my opinion.
Whatever I've tried, it did not give me satisfactory results.
Therefore I use 'Jam' (roxio.com) to burn my Audio CDs.
It isn't cheap, but the best Audio CD burner available for Mac.
It gives you full control on levels and crossfades.

M

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chevvies

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Jan 19, 2006 1:22 PM in response to comiconline

Last night I found out that iVolume 1 had been replaced by version 2 which apparently does what we want it to do for iPod and burning, it now appears to be working in harmony with iTunes sound-check, or at least it's making it work.
I am now happier with the results on my iPod, version 1 wasn't quite right, haven't tried burning yet though.
It's available for a few dollars from iVolume directly or Kagi.

iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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