One thought on this issue is that if you are ripping all your own mp3's.. you could normalize your whole collection during the encoding process. This would assure you of a nice peak setting for all your music.

However there are situations obviously where you will have 3rd party encoded files (mp3 , wma , whatever format becomes the delivery mechanism of the day)

A peek ahead to Db levels at a given volume compares and boost the volume for the next song based on that comparison still sounds processor intensive. Can the EMPEG mark I handle that?

Personally , I would rather just have a analog knob to turn the volume up and down as i needed it. I am used to doing this , and often the computer would probably have me mad. Has anyone seen the volume adjustment on some of the newer cars? (VW jetta and Passat come to mind). Those are annoying and can cause an adjustment right when you DONT want it to the music. It will never be able to actualize a volume level that you feel comfortable with. It will put a gain on poorly recorded music that will distort easily , and lower songs that have a high gain that you purposely want loud because it is "party music". Computers can do a lot of functions digitally , but it can't guess how it warm it will sound to your ears.

Auto-Normalization seems cool from a distance. In reality it would be come a rarely used feature and annoyance to most users. I perfer to have a per song equalization that you can set from EMPLODE. I am for more user definable features that I can set. (such as visulization rotation patterns) than for the computer to take over the control of my music.



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