When listening to music on the computer and especially when surfing the internet and seeing a video, it is likely that you often go to touch the volume lever to raise or lower it according to the moment. There are, however, various ways to adjust a constant volume level, both at the Windows level and in a specific program such as VLC or any other music player.
Many applications and even Windows in fact have the function of " volume normalization " or " loudness " equalization.
These are characteristics, often a bit hidden, that allow you to improve listening to music or videos on your PC .
In addition, there are ways to automatically adjust the volume level to automatically lower it at night or early morning and raise it during the day and to adjust it faster with the mouse wheel.
1) Loudness equalization of WIndows
Windows includes a feature to activate the Loudness equalizer, although some audio drivers do not support it.
The equalizer maintains a more or less regular volume, on all the programs present on the computer, within a constant interval.
To enable the loudness equalizer, right click on the speaker icon in the system tray and select playback devices .
Select the Speakers or Headphones audio device and click the Properties button.
On the Enhancements tab and enable the Loudness checkbox in the list.
If you did not see the Enhancements section, it may not be supported by the sound card driver.
The changes should be applied in real time but, in some cases, it is necessary to reopen the program that was being used.
2) VLC Player, the famous program for watching videos on a computer, has the function of normalizing the volume
If the sound card does not support the loudness equalizer, you can search for an application with a volume normalization function, useful if you want to uniform the volume level for each file opened with that program and make sure that they are all open with the same volume.
VLC media player includes the audio volume normalization filter.
To activate it, click on the Tools menu in VLC, select Preferences, click on All at the bottom where it is written Show settings and select, under the Audio section, the Filters .
On the right, activate the volume normalizer then, expand filters, select the normalizer and change the volume if desired.
You may need to restart VLC for the changes to take effect.
3) ReplayGain to hear music with the same volume
With a collection of songs on your computer, you can use ReplayGain to even out the volume levels of music files.
ReplayGain is the standard for measuring the volume of music tracks in order to analyze the levels of all mp3 files and set them all to the same constant volume.
You can edit the music files themselves, with a utility such as MP3Gain to have MP3 files at the same volume and with the same audio quality .
Without processing the files, however, you can use the large Foobar2000 mp3 player (one of the best audio player programs for PC) or even MusicBee Player, (or any other player that supports ReplayGain), you can activate the scanning of music files and determine the their relative volumes.
Instead of changing the audio data, Foobar2000 adds metadata to automatically adjust the volume during playback .
4) To adjust the volume with the mouse wheel you can use Volumouse, a similar and alternative program to Volume2 (which no longer exists).
5) In another article, how to adjust the Windows audio volume automatically
In another article, how to turn up the audio volume of music or mp3 if you are feeling low
