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How can I boost the volume of a song before adding it to my iTunes library?
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<blockquote data-quote="dc2bluelight" data-source="post: 1813337" data-attributes="member: 399729"><p>Audible? Don't you mean....something else? I'm fairly sure Audible is an audio book service.</p><p></p><p>Well, yes, it's nice to get it right when you record the original, but it's not a disaster if you need to tweak it later. Nothing will be damaged in the process. The noise floor and max peal level of a vinyl rip is established by the vinyl, not the digital medium, even if it's been recorded substantially too low. </p><p></p><p>Realize, that even Audacity (the free app) uses an internal 32 bit floating point data structure that makes resampling and DSP functions like simple level adjustment, or complex functions like multiband dynamics processing entirely possible without side effects other than the process itself. As I posted earlier, it's easy to demonstrate that changing level by 20dB (that's a 1:10 change) can be done without any audible deterioration, and in fact, is done every day in digital mixing. In the old days of 16 bit fixed, I'd have agreed with the above. Heck, we couldn't pull of a smooth digital fade out at the end of a tune. But those days have been over for quite some time. Audition, Pro Tools, etc., are all using 64 bit floating point math, for the reason of facilitating extensive digital signal processing without detriment. It's a done deal. </p><p></p><p>If the OP can't re-record, just run it through any modern digital audio program and bump the level up where you need it.</p><p></p><p>If anyone using iTunes is not backing up the actual media (not just the iTunes database), they're exposed to all manor of corruption. Not just iTunes, pretty much any music player that also manages a media library. iTunes keeps a database AND a media library of nested folders and files, and that's not unique to iTunes. Either one, or both, can become corrupted. The only cure is a good backup strategy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dc2bluelight, post: 1813337, member: 399729"] Audible? Don't you mean....something else? I'm fairly sure Audible is an audio book service. Well, yes, it's nice to get it right when you record the original, but it's not a disaster if you need to tweak it later. Nothing will be damaged in the process. The noise floor and max peal level of a vinyl rip is established by the vinyl, not the digital medium, even if it's been recorded substantially too low. Realize, that even Audacity (the free app) uses an internal 32 bit floating point data structure that makes resampling and DSP functions like simple level adjustment, or complex functions like multiband dynamics processing entirely possible without side effects other than the process itself. As I posted earlier, it's easy to demonstrate that changing level by 20dB (that's a 1:10 change) can be done without any audible deterioration, and in fact, is done every day in digital mixing. In the old days of 16 bit fixed, I'd have agreed with the above. Heck, we couldn't pull of a smooth digital fade out at the end of a tune. But those days have been over for quite some time. Audition, Pro Tools, etc., are all using 64 bit floating point math, for the reason of facilitating extensive digital signal processing without detriment. It's a done deal. If the OP can't re-record, just run it through any modern digital audio program and bump the level up where you need it. If anyone using iTunes is not backing up the actual media (not just the iTunes database), they're exposed to all manor of corruption. Not just iTunes, pretty much any music player that also manages a media library. iTunes keeps a database AND a media library of nested folders and files, and that's not unique to iTunes. Either one, or both, can become corrupted. The only cure is a good backup strategy. [/QUOTE]
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