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iVolume ... Tired of constantly adjusting your music's volume? iVolume ensures that all your songs play at the same volume level.
iVolume calculates the volume perceived by the human ear for each song of your iTunes music collection. Thereby iVolume gets the most out of the approved Replay Gain algorithm and adjusts your songs accordingly.
Compatible With Your Digital Life: iVolume integrates seamlessly with iTunes on Mac and PC, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, FrontRow and AirTunes. Most popular audio file formats like MP3, M4A/AAC, AIFF and Apple Lossless are supported.
iVolume calculates the volume perceived by the human ear for each song of your iTunes music collection. Thereby iVolume gets the most out of the approved Replay Gain algorithm and adjusts your songs accordingly.
Compatible With Your Digital Life: iVolume integrates seamlessly with iTunes on Mac and PC, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, FrontRow and AirTunes. Most popular audio file formats like MP3, M4A/AAC, AIFF and Apple Lossless are supported.
What's New
Version 3.6.5:
- Compatibility: Fixed various issues that happened in special cases:
- Fixed slow checking caused by FileVault 2 and Time Machine.
- Fixed "write protected" errors with iTunes 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
- Fixed "decoding" errors on Windows.
- Fixed scrollers on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
- Fixed graphical glitches on Windows.
- Getting immediate feedback of volume change in iTunes again.
- Ignoring iCloud tracks that are not downloaded.
- Localization: Added Spanish translation.
- Convenience: Added Genre column.
- Service: Added newsletter subscription.
Version 3.6.5:
- Compatibility: Fixed various issues that happened in special cases:
- Fixed slow checking caused by FileVault 2 and Time Machine.
- Fixed "write protected" errors with iTunes 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
- Fixed "decoding" errors on Windows.
- Fixed scrollers on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
- Fixed graphical glitches on Windows.
- Getting immediate feedback of volume change in iTunes more...
Requirements
- PPC / Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
- iTunes 7 or later
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| Downloads:63,653 |
| Version Downloads:2,182 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : MP3 |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:23 Dec 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $29.95 |
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iVolume ... Tired of constantly adjusting your music's volume? iVolume ensures that all your songs play at the same volume level.
iVolume calculates the volume perceived by the human ear for each song of your iTunes music collection. Thereby iVolume gets the most out of the approved Replay Gain algorithm and adjusts your songs accordingly.
Compatible With Your Digital Life: iVolume integrates seamlessly with iTunes on Mac and PC, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, FrontRow and AirTunes. Most popular audio file formats like MP3, M4A/AAC, AIFF and Apple Lossless are supported.
Blazingly Fast: iVolume takes advantage of newest technologies to fully utilize every core of modern multiprocessor machines for optimal performance.
Avoids Unnecessary Work: iVolume remembers all results ever calculated. Apply changed adjustment settings without the need for re-analyzing your songs.
Keeps Albums Intact: By using a sophisticated album detection algorithm iVolume optionally adjusts albums as a whole to keep the intention of the artist. This method is particularly suitable for adjusting gapless live albums.
Highly Configurable: Create groups to apply individual fine tuned settings to any specified subset of your songs.
Awesome Usability: All the features above are fun and incredibly easy to use through a modern and clear user interface.
iVolume calculates the volume perceived by the human ear for each song of your iTunes music collection. Thereby iVolume gets the most out of the approved Replay Gain algorithm and adjusts your songs accordingly.
Compatible With Your Digital Life: iVolume integrates seamlessly with iTunes on Mac and PC, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, FrontRow and AirTunes. Most popular audio file formats like MP3, M4A/AAC, AIFF and Apple Lossless are supported.
Blazingly Fast: iVolume takes advantage of newest technologies to fully utilize every core of modern multiprocessor machines for optimal performance.
Avoids Unnecessary Work: iVolume remembers all results ever calculated. Apply changed adjustment settings without the need for re-analyzing your songs.
Keeps Albums Intact: By using a sophisticated album detection algorithm iVolume optionally adjusts albums as a whole to keep the intention of the artist. This method is particularly suitable for adjusting gapless live albums.
Highly Configurable: Create groups to apply individual fine tuned settings to any specified subset of your songs.
Awesome Usability: All the features above are fun and incredibly easy to use through a modern and clear user interface.
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Xplicit reviewed on 13 Apr 2012
Also since the app is just some GUI for the replay gain algorithm it's grotesquely overpriced.
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BigJohnson reviewed on 07 Jan 2012
This is the worst case of NAGware I've ever seen! The registration window says it will remind you "from time to time to register."
That "time to time" works out to every 5 seconds!
When unregistered, the process only runs for 5 seconds before it stops and displays a registration nag screen. You must wait the designated amount of time before you may proceed: 1st pause=5 sec., 2nd pause=10 sec., 3rd pause=15 sec., and every pause after that is 20 seconds. So after running for 5 seconds, you must wait 20 seconds before you can run for 5 more seconds! Then, even though the process starts again, it provides an extremely annoying uh-uh sound when you press the Continue button. Maybe the registration screen pops up after a certain number of tracks have been processed, but it worked out to every 5 seconds for me.
And don't you dare go try to use another app while it's running, because in 5 seconds when it's time to hit Continue again, the icon begins bouncing in the Dock, making you want to punch the screen. I have now disabled Dock icon bouncing.
I didn't get to fully evaluate the app, because I don't have the patience or time to sit here pressing the Continue button every 20 seconds, and I'm not not gonna waste time making a script to do it for me.
I'm giving 2 stars for Features, Value and Stability just because I have to provide a rating to submit this review. They may merit 5 stars, but there's no way to tell since I couldn't test the app.
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The app works well enough to allow you to gauge whether it fulfills its function - and it does that very well.
If you don't have any stability complaints, it's unethical to rate it low on stability. Sheesh.
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Pnn314 reviewed on 26 Dec 2011
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Ludio reviewed on 10 Jul 2011
I set it to adjust all tracks to 93db. Although it adjusted all the tracks, they were audibly still at different volume levels. Many of the originally quieter ones, such as those from the 1930s, although now louder, were still too quiet and certainly not at the same volume level as louder tracks.
To overcome this, I created folders in iVolume, each with its own volume adjustments, and started listening to each track to determine which ones should go into which folders to bring all tracks to about the same volume level. It was several weeks before I realised I was doing again what I had been doing in the first place before buying iVolume to do it for me.
I want an application that will adjust all my music collection so that all tracks play at the same volume level such that, for example, Bing Crosby plays at the same volume level as Metallica without my having to adjust the volume. iVolume is not that application.
Finally, there doesn't appear to be a way to remove all iVolume's adjustments and reset mps3 to their original volume levels.
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iVolume does exactly for me what you say it does not, make each song have the same relative volume level. I think I may know why it isn't working for you. You had already started to make your own manual adjustments prior to iVolume with iTunes, using Get Info on a track, then under Options, adjusting the slider from 'none'. Did you set those all back to 'none' (in the middle, no adjustment) before using iVolume?
iVolume I think is analyzing the songs and setting the volume property correctly which is NOT the same as the manual adjustment you see in Get Info, it's another property. Then during playback, iTunes still tacks on the manual adjustment you set ON TOP of whatever volume setting iVolume has saved. In the iVOlume preferences, there is check box "Reset Manual Adjustments to 0%". This should be checked to remove any manual adjustments you made PRIOR to using iVolume. Also, have you confirmed that you have 'Sound Check' turned on in iTunes Preferences?
I'm fairly sure it has to do with the adjustments you made prior to iVOlume that weren't reset to zero. Because iVolume has worked PERFECTLY for me for over a year (Mac), covering nearly 7K tracks. This includes classical music, which is especially prone to wide volume ranges.
Hope this helps. As far as reseting the volume setting made by iVolume, if you have a Mac, then you can use AppleScript with iTunes. Check out Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes http://dougscripts.com/itunes/
There are scripts there that will do just about anything in iTunes, including setting any track property to any value you want. Good luck
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After shelving iVolume, I looked for an alternative. I found and tried Smart Gain. There's no way to undo the changes made with Smart Gain, so I made a copy of some of my iTunes library and set about adjusting the volume on the copied tracks. It works well, and the waveform display of the the volume is very useful, as is the feature whereby the volume level of selected parts of a single track can be adjusted, but every track in the library would have to be adjusted individually.
Thanks again for your reply, and thank you also for recommending dougscripts.com.
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random songs that were previously adjusted now are gray, and need a
re-adjustment.
Also, songs that have been played many times mysteriously come up as
"File Not Found" in this app. I've gone so far as to remove the songs
from the Library and re-add them, but no change. I've tried to get an
answer from the developer, but no reply yet.
I have about 9600 songs - does this make a difference in the way
iVolume works?
And there's still no alternative to this?
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This is the overall problem I am reading in others comments. I am using the demo mode and in the 10 song limit I found this to be true as well. I went to the website to see what's up before I buy this app and the problem is addressed clearly. Here's the answer/explanation:
iVolume is adjusting the tag named 'iTunNORM' that is embedded by iTunes directly into the tracks when 'Sound Check' is turned on. If the 'iTunNORM' tag is missing in a song, iVolume can't adjust that song. The result is a 'No Tag' error. If you get 'No Tag' errors in iVolume, first make sure that 'Sound Check' is turned on in 'iTunes > Preferences… > Playback'.
Sometimes you may still get 'No Tag' errors for many tracks. Especially older iTunes versions tend to store the 'iTunNORM' tag in its internal database instead of inside the track files.
In this case you can force iTunes to put the missing 'iTunNORM' tags into the songs by performing the following instructions:
http://www.mani.de/en/software/macosx/ivolume/faq.html#tag
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