Flash Drive Music
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Melting Slicks
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Flash Drive Music
I just loaded a flash drive with music to use in my 17 GS a week ago and have been using in Corvette . It's a Lexar flash drive if it matters. I seems to me when I plug in flash drive and use Media part of radio the volume is much lower than using radio stations. Anyone have a solutions. Really annoying when switching back to radio stations and it blast me out of car. Thanks Dave
Melting Slicks
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The volume can sometimes be diff depending on how you ripped the files.
Most of my music was originally mp4's and I converted them to MP3's.During the conversion,I can + or - the vol.
\db2
Most of my music was originally mp4's and I converted them to MP3's.During the conversion,I can + or - the vol.
\db2
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There are PC programs that change the volume of say MP3 files. Not sure, but if you can do that for them in bulk it might be a useful path to pursue.
https://www.online-tech-tips.com/com...er-in-windows/
https://www.online-tech-tips.com/com...er-in-windows/
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When I use Bluetooth with my iPhone the volume is much lower than when I use the radio. When I plug my iPhone into the USB jack its loud just like the radio is. Something about using Bluetooth it's no as loud.
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Not to hijack the thread, but why isn't the volume control a relative volume instead of an absolute volume? That is, a volume setting is for the volume coming out of the speakers and not the volume change from an input.
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I would bet that there are playback units that allow you to adjust and then save the volume difference between inputs.
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Most songs have softer passages and louder passages, and so when you listen live, of course you don't hear everything at one volume level. Why would you want your listening in your car to be different, with the car's audio system clipping all the louder passages and boosting all the lower ones, so that everything is the same?
What others have said is correct -- fix the problem at the source. There are utilities that make this quite easy.
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Most songs have softer passages and louder passages, and so when you listen live, of course you don't hear everything at one volume level. Why would you want your listening in your car to be different, with the car's audio system clipping all the louder passages and boosting all the lower ones, so that everything is the same?
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MP3 Gain will get the job done. Here is the link to the free software.
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php
Here is a video tutorial on how to use it.
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php
Here is a video tutorial on how to use it.
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I use AVS Audio Editor. I hit the auto-correct and always works great.
I used it on all 400GB of musik I have...
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Well I have changed music from records , reel to reel cassettes and CDs to flash drive and they are all different levels of sound !!! Even different musical groups sound level is not the same !!!!! Radio sound is always louder and that's been going on for over 50 years !!! Wayne
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MP3 Gain will get the job done. Here is the link to the free software.
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php
Here is a video tutorial on how to use it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4BvidJX3-U
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php
Here is a video tutorial on how to use it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4BvidJX3-U
Thanks for posting the tutorial and link
I just tested this w/ a thumb drive on a couple of songs. Volumes are equal to my ears. What a great program!!!!!!!
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Increase the volume by using your phones volume button. The USB jack plays files directly from your music files and your cars radio decodes and plays it, the Bluetooth uses your phone to decode and play the music and is simply piped through to your speakers.
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This looks like a great program. I have a lot of music, some older stuff and lots of newer stuff. I'm constantly adjusting the volumes when playing songs from albums like "Eric Clapton's Crossroads Boxed set" or Steve Winwood's "Roll with it", compared to newer CD's and the songs I've "ripped".. During the "Rip", I had no way of knowing which albums were recorded at lower levels, so adjustments during that phase was always a "crap shoot".. With is program, it appears (if working off a thumb drive where all my music is stored), I should be able to get all those older songs volumes up closer to the new stuff, which would be a huge improvement.
Thanks for posting the tutorial and link
I just tested this w/ a thumb drive on a couple of songs. Volumes are equal to my ears. What a great program!!!!!!!
Thanks for posting the tutorial and link
I just tested this w/ a thumb drive on a couple of songs. Volumes are equal to my ears. What a great program!!!!!!!
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No. It isn't that sophisticated, and you probably wouldn't want it to be.
Most songs have softer passages and louder passages, and so when you listen live, of course you don't hear everything at one volume level. Why would you want your listening in your car to be different, with the car's audio system clipping all the louder passages and boosting all the lower ones, so that everything is the same?
What others have said is correct -- fix the problem at the source. There are utilities that make this quite easy.
Most songs have softer passages and louder passages, and so when you listen live, of course you don't hear everything at one volume level. Why would you want your listening in your car to be different, with the car's audio system clipping all the louder passages and boosting all the lower ones, so that everything is the same?
What others have said is correct -- fix the problem at the source. There are utilities that make this quite easy.