I’ve been setting up a Home media center pc using XBMC on windows (The new version is very good).
So that all my music is in one easy to reach place I’ve been ripping some of my old CD’s, however this has the problem that some of the audio levels are very low and you have to turn the volume up. The next track comes along which is of a high volume and now there’s the mad dash to find the volume control.
I have used some normalization packages before such as MPtrim but this can be a bit hit and miss.
I download MP3Gain and it appears to be working very well to normalize all the volume levels. The application is very small and very easy to use. If you’re having problems with low sound levels after ripping music this is the way to go.