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Can anyone recommend an MP3 batch normalizer app?

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2002 12:36 am
by FlyingPenguin
I have a friend who wants to take all the MP3's he downloads and run them through a program to normalize them.

He's not technically inclined nor does he want to spend much money, also it needs to do SEVERAL MP3 files in an automated batch process at one time.

I use Sound Forge myself, but even if I wanted to (cough cough) loan him a copy of my CD, that's too complex a program for him, and as far as I know you can't do automated batch processing in Sound Forge anyway (I do them one at a time).

Everything else I have only normalized WAV files not MP3 files.

Any suggestions?

Thx...

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2002 2:55 am
by Executioner
I use the one with Cool Edit, but I've never seen a freeware stand alone utility to normilze mp3's. Only wav's. Check THIS SITE , maybe you might find something useful there.

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2002 7:53 am
by d_b

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2002 10:50 am
by FlyingPenguin
Well on another tact - his main concern is normalizing before burning audio CDs from MP3s. Is there an audio CD burner that does normalizing? He wouldn't mind paying for that.

He's using EZ CD Creator 5 now (came with the computer).

Thx

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2002 12:52 pm
by PreDatoR
I want to say EZ Creator 4 would do that... Its been so long since i've used it i can't remember for sure...

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2002 2:41 pm
by FlyingPenguin
Ah, good point. I'm going through the specs for EZ CD Creator 5 and it seems to have some kind of normalizer.

Before you buy Easy CD Creator, check this out...

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2002 3:45 pm
by poop
If you go to http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.a ... 36&DEPA=1, you can get a 24x burner WITH a copy of Nero for less than the cost of eassy CD Creator.

Nero comes with the following audio filters:
Normalization
DeClick
Hiss Reduction
Fade In
Fade Out
Stereo Widening
Karaoke
Echo
Equalizer

I just typed the list here. If you want, I can check out what they all do and send the descriptions to ya.

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2002 4:43 pm
by PreDatoR
I'm buring a CD right now with Nero using the Norm Filter... I forgot Nero had all of this too... I've got a bunch of songs i've download some are loud as hell and others are too quiet... i'll see how it turns out once its done...

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2002 5:07 pm
by PreDatoR
FP Nero worked great... I had 3 songs that were really quiet before and a couple that were way too loud. and all are the same vol as the rest... It was pretty easy to do... Jsut highlight all the songs in the list right click hit properties and select normalize i used RMS at 20%... U can use Max but then you take a chance at clipping.. . The CD turned out really well...

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2002 2:52 pm
by FlyingPenguin
Cool! You're right, Nero 5.5 does have a built-in Normalizer. Thanks!