Henrik, Thanks for your suggestion, but I'm still not getting any results.
I checked in GNUtunesDB.xml, soundcheck="" for all the songs.. so that looks like its not the culprit, and volume="" for all settings. I tried setting volume="50", volume="0", volume="-50" for all songs (regex replace in vim). Then I did mktunes.pl -m /mnt/ipod/, and ejected the drive. The volume isn't any different. Any ideas? Am I doing this in the right order (edit GNUtunesDB.xml, then mktunes and eject) also how does soundcheck work? Can I use a negative scaling factor? ie make all songs a little quieter? -Eric On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:38 PM, H. Langos <[email protected]> wrote: > hi eric, > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:36:13AM -0500, eric himmelreich wrote: > > Here is the situation.. I load up my ipod using gnupod_addsong, do > mktunes > > and eject it. Its ready for listening. > > The problem, the volume is too loud (even when I turn the volume down on > the > > ipod all the way). > > > > Isn't there some kind of internal volume setting that I can adjust? > > > > I've tried using mktunes --volume -50, but it doesn't seem to work. I > want > > to check what the volume is set at now, and to lower it a lot. > > as i see it there are two attributes in your GNUtunesDB.xml that coud > influence > the volume of a song on the ipod. one would be "volume" and "soundcheck" > the other. > > i don't know how the volume attribute influences the ipod's volume so > here's > how you could test if soundcheck is the trouble maker. > > soundckeck is influenced by the data that gnupod reads from meta data that > iTunes and other software leave in the mp3 tags. (iTunesNORM is the name of > that comment) > > if gnupod doesn't find any comment that looks like the iTunesNORM data, it > will leave put soundcheck="0" in your GNUtunesDB.xml otherwise it will put > a > scaling factor in there that is used to normalize the volume across > different songs. > > please let me know if you need help to find the GNUtunesDB.xml or a fast > way > to look for non-zero soundcheck attributes there. > > cheers > -henrik > >
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