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Originally Posted by jim1960
I really wish the industry would come together and agree on some standards. There have been attempts but nothing formal and nothing really seems to have taken root. There's too much loudness deviation. I'm noticing it a lot lately because I got a new ipod to use in my car and created a bunch of new playlists with songs that span genres and decades. I'm finding myself reaching for the volume knob way too much.
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Radio stations and TV networks attempt to do that kind of evening-out, but the tech they use to do it is pretty crude and hands-off.
One of the goals of record-mastering, usually, is to deliver a sequence of songs where the listener doesn't have to fiddle with the volume control. But beyond that, I'm not bothered by the overall volume of one record being different from another.
If I was a playlist person like you, though, I might think about loading it all into my DAW, evening out the levels, and then spitting it back out. Like Rhino does with their compilations.