I'm currently messing around with the volume leveling feature and I don't quite get it. From what i can tell, it only decreases the volume of louder tracks, while the quieter ones are unaffected.
So here is my settings for volume leveling:
"Level Playback / Sync volume" is set to "per track"
"Level Playback volume" is checked and set to 89 dB
"Target volume for leveling tracks" is also set to 89 dB (I have no idea what the difference is between these two other than this one makes the files list say the level adjustment)
"Level ripped tracks" is set to "Album"
"Target volume for ripping Audio CDs" is also set to 89 dB (does this permanently change the volume of a ripped album? if so how do you avoid that when ripping?)
"Clipping prevention" checked
With those settings, tracks that have negative dB in the file list lose volume, such as one with -10.8 dB. While a track with +5.7 dB is completely unaffected.
Messing around further just to see what happens, i set the dB to 40 dB and the higher volume tracks just didn't play; they started and then the progress bar (for the track time) went from beginning to end in 3 seconds with no sound. The lower volume tracks would play and at a lower volume as they should.
I then tried upping the setting to 120 dB. With this setting, the tracks would play, but the track volume was unaffected, despite having +30 dB or more in the file list display.
So this led me to the conclusion that this only affects tracks that are above the target volume and the lower ones are unaffected, while setting it too low will make the higher volume tracks not play at all. Shouldn't this function increase the volume too and not just decrease the louder tracks?
Volume Leveling only decreases volume?
Moderator: Gurus
Re: Volume Leveling only decreases volume?
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