Normalizing music on android?

[BigRedRage]

So I cant seem to find anything online except suggestions to normalize all the music on my computer prior to putting it on the phone. My only concern with that is I dont want to lower the quality of the loud tracks to bring them down to the quiet tracks from the early 90s, I just want everything to play from my phone at equal volume as usually when playing my phone I play music on random at work to have a variety of tunes over a 10 hour work day.

Normalizing is when it causes all music to play at the same volume if wondering. Currently I'll have cypress hill on and have to crank it up to hear it but then lamb of god will come out and you can hear it across the entire office.

 

[puckhead]

You sir, are a victim of the Loudness War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

There is software out there that will pre-analyze the tracks before normalization and preserve as much quality as possible. It will probably be a long process, but you may be able to do batches if you have your tunes organized well.

I create my own mp3's from CD's and always adjust levels on the way down. But if I am listening critically, the CD goes in the player on the big system. If I'm in the car or on headphones, I'm not expecting audiophile quality due to all the limitations in the chain.

I also found an app called n7player:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.n7mobile.nplayer&hl=en
on the Play Store that claims to have audio normalization plus a 10-band EQ. I haven't tried it, but it might help out.

 

[BigRedRage]

ill try N7, thx. Surprised google play music doesn't have it built in. All my music is from cd to mp3 as well at 256 bitrate. I just had on bullet for my valentine and had to turn it up, now a song from slayers divine intervention is on and its a click or two lower than I would like it but if I keep turning it up a song is going to come on that is stupid loud and if some old 90s stuff comes on I wont even be able to hear it.

PITA! Ima try that app. It says "device dependant" and I am reading that android has things deep inside its UI that keeps apps from being able to normalize. Trying it today.

 

[BigRedRage]

so N7 seems to work a little bit better however you constantly get "given song track cannot be opened" for some reason. IE: it did it to one pantera song from their 5th album but then played another song from the 5th album. The whole album is the same filetype so not sure wtf. Gonna let it play for a bit and see how it is for now.

 

[BigRedRage]

So DR Greenthumb comes on, the intro commercial is real loud and im waiting to have to turn the speaker down when the song comes on. When the song comes on, suddenly you can barely hear it LOL

So stupid.

 

[BigRedRage]

still going from loud and clear audioslave to barely audible cypress hill. Lame. Apparently most of my issues are with cypress hill albums.

 

[puckhead]

It sucks. It's also completely unnecessary. One of the dumbest things the industry has done. Everyone has a knob on their stereo that can make things louder.

It's like a chef saying, "I'm going to over-salt the crap out of your food, even though there is a shaker of salt on every table."