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Feb 20, 2015 11:26 AM in response to Woodlandtripperby Limnos,This document is relatively recent and suggests Sound Check is still there. I don't use a new iTunes so I can't tell you exactly where.
iTunes: About Sound Check - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2425
The question is, does it only affect playback volume or does it do burning too (doesn't say and I haven't ever burned a CD with it on)?
I think a lot of new music (and remastered releases of old recordings) has audio compression applied which irons out extremes and squeezes audio into a smaller volume range. To prevent overtaxing speakers iTunes scales everything to the top volume which means with newer recordings there isn't as much difference between loud and quiet and and most of an average track is fairly loud. Older music may have a lot of quiet spots with an occasional really loud part. The volume gets limited at the top peak and much of the track ends up in the low to mid volume range.
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Feb 20, 2015 3:10 PM in response to Woodlandtripperby ed2345,First the good news. As Limnos notes, Sound Check is still there. Sound Check for burning is a different setting than Sound Check for playback; simply check "Use Sound Check" when you get the burn dialog, as shown below.
Now for the bad news. iTunes Sound Check works poorly. In my experience, it is much inferior to the volume leveling in dedicated burning programs ( e.g. Roxio).
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Feb 21, 2015 5:37 AM in response to ed2345by Woodlandtripper,Thanks for your replies. I will attempt Sound Check (from burn settings) when burning my next CD and check back in here.
(can't be any worse, right?)
