Does anyone know of a program the measure volume?

[Glorybox3737]

I was wondering if there was a program that could tell me the db level of my music on the iPod. I use euPod (80%) on my iPod and mp3gain (89.0db) on my mp3 files. I only cut the music up to about 35% on the volume bar. I was wondering how loud this actually was.

If anyone knows of any programs that can measure volume output that would be great.

Edit: This is one of those moments when i feel like an idiot. I forgot that itunes has an option to increase the volume on the file. Much better than euPod. With euPod it was resync everything (uncool). So now I have the Volume control on itunes set the 100. I use abot 25% of the volume bar.

I'm gonna do some battery test to see if the changes I made actually make a differance.

[awheewall]

EuPod is out of date now, have you tried GoPod? It's a much better solution.

[Glorybox3737]

Oh I don't need go pod. My iPod isn't capped. I use euPod to increase the volume on my music. That way I can have louder sound without cutting up the actual iPod. I believe this improves battery life.

[kornchild2002]

OK. You should try just using mp3 gain instead of using 2 programs that do the same things. That way you have less of a chance that your music will experience clipping at the high volumes (ie when you play it through your car or home stereo system).

As for programs that actually measure how loud something goes, you would have to get a pretty good microphone, hook it up to your computer, and play a song through your headphones or some other source. I only know of programs that will increase (or decrease) the volume of digital music files, I don't know of any that will display their current volume. I don't think there are any.

As for the battery life, it doesn't really matter. If you increase the volume of a song (either through your iPod's control or through mp3gain), you are still going to increase the volume at which sound comes out of the iPod's headphones, you aren't going to change this. The affect on battery life is negligable and will be the same for either method. If you increase the volume of the mp3 itself by 85 dbp then it will play at 85 dbp through your iPod. If you turn your iPod up to 85 dbp then that same mp3 is playing at that same volume requiring just as much power to go to your headphones.

[Glorybox3737]

Originally posted by kornchild2002
OK. You should try just using mp3 gain instead of using 2 programs that do the same things. That way you have less of a chance that your music will experience clipping at the high volumes (ie when you play it through your car or home stereo system).

As for programs that actually measure how loud something goes, you would have to get a pretty good microphone, hook it up to your computer, and play a song through your headphones or some other source. I only know of programs that will increase (or decrease) the volume of digital music files, I don't know of any that will display their current volume. I don't think there are any.

As for the battery life, it doesn't really matter. If you increase the volume of a song (either through your iPod's control or through mp3gain), you are still going to increase the volume at which sound comes out of the iPod's headphones, you aren't going to change this. The affect on battery life is negligable and will be the same for either method. If you increase the volume of the mp3 itself by 85 dbp then it will play at 85 dbp through your iPod. If you turn your iPod up to 85 dbp then that same mp3 is playing at that same volume requiring just as much power to go to your headphones.


So let me get this straight. Say I that I usually have my iPod's volume at 65% with mp3gain 89 dbp. That would be the same as if I had my iPod at 32% with mp3gain 89.0 and the volume adjustment at 100%. Let's say that both methods puts out 80dbp (just a random number). What matters to the player is that it is putting out at 80 dbp. To the player it doesn't matter how this is done, just that it is being done?

Also a side question. I have all my music mp3gained at 89 dbp. Does that mean on the iPod that the loudest those files will go is 89 dbp?

[OafyC]

I really don't understand this. Most music is already on the verge of clipping because it is mastered like that. If you increase the volume of the actual file wouldn't you be introducing distortion?

[henny]

Thats like asking how far can you drive on 4 litres (or gallons if you must) of pertrol. It depends on the efficiency of the speakers/headphones (vehicle)