Hiya everyone! New-bee here on Music-Bee!
My only past experience with music managers and libraries has been with Windows Media Player and Winamp. I had been looking at other applications for something better and decided that MusicBee looked to be more-than-suitable for my uses. So far, I have been very impressed!!
I've been using MB for a few weeks on a library of around 900 songs now, and like others, I have the problem of varying volumes among the different tracks. I am treating all songs as individual tracks -- no albums. So far, I just have played with using the "Volume Adjustment" feature that is part of the Tag Editor -- Settings feature. This is getting more difficult to do the larger my library becomes. Also, I am very inexperienced with changing Tags, especially those that affect playback aspects.
So, I am looking to run the Analyzer Volume tool to adjust all tracks to some baseline volume and then apply an adjustment to just the tracks that I think should be louder (in most cases) or softer.
Before I do this, I have some questions to ask of those "in the know". So far, in searching the forum I have not found any definitive answers to #1.
1) Before I run Analyze Volume, do I need to go into any tracks that I have modified and reset the Tag Editor "Volume Adjustment" to 0 dB? I would assume Yes.
2) As I understand it, I can use another music manager like Foobar to perform any new volume adjustments that I may want to make to the ID3V2.3 tags. Also, I got the impression that I can use the application MP3TAG to do this too, which in my mind is simpler than loading up a copy of Foobar, which I see no other use for personally. Is this true about MP3TAG?
I think I understand what-all Analyze Volume will do to the track files, but if I have any questions, I will ask them here. Right now I am trying to determine whether to use the "0 dB" baseline for Analyze Volume's -9dB to +6dB range or to set it to -3dB to provide more upper range adjustment. At least this is what I am presently thinking, as I suspect that most adjustments I may want to make would be for increased volume on the Rock and Pop tracks especially.
Thanks ahead of time for answers to my questions and any helpful hints you may provide.
Gabe