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Title: Auto volume leveling
Post by: ciccio.salsiccio on 2013-03-25 09:24:21
Hi everyone,
i'm ejoying foobar since a long time, and i always looked for an option or a way to set the playback volume to autolevel.
I listen to music in office, and sometimes songs are at a higher or a lower volume, even inside the same song.
I would like to set the volume at a position so i don't have to adjust it every 2 minutes.

I tryed to search in the forum, but i didn't find anything.

Thanks for your help.

Title: Auto volume leveling
Post by: dhromed on 2013-03-25 10:16:18
For volume leveling between songs, there's ReplayGain. You scan your library, then go to Preferences > Playback > Sourcemode = track; Processing =  apply gain. The volume corrections are stored in tags, and applied on the fly on playback. I'm surprised you couldn't find anything— it's a very common topic. What did you search for?

For volume leveling within songs, you'll need a dynamic range compressor and/or a limiter.

I know that this effect collection (http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_dsp_effect) has a compressor, but I haven't played with it.
Title: Auto volume leveling
Post by: Dynamic on 2013-03-25 18:08:16
http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_r128norm (http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_r128norm) acts as a subtle volume rider with about 10 second look-ahead and matches volume against ReplayGain standard 89 dB SPL using the R128 algorithm.
Title: Re: Auto volume leveling
Post by: elcosomalo on 2022-08-10 16:15:28
EBU R128 is NOT an auto volume component, its a compressor. Not the same. I need an auto volume component like Vlevel but it crashes on the latest foobar versions.
Title: Re: Auto volume leveling
Post by: fooball on 2022-08-10 16:29:31
Not the same.
Isn't it?  Surely anything which alters the volume dynamically is a compressor!  The alternative is to set the volume for the whole track.
Title: Re: Auto volume leveling
Post by: Squeller on 2022-08-11 12:35:50
EBU R128 is NOT an auto volume component, its a compressor. Not the same. I need an auto volume component like Vlevel but it crashes on the latest foobar versions.
I have 20080302.0 version, somewhere from here, did never and does not crash. EBU R128 plugin has no options, for my taste it is way to radical pushing up the very silent parts.
Title: Re: Auto volume leveling
Post by: elcosomalo on 2022-08-13 20:51:59
Not the same.
Isn't it?  Surely anything which alters the volume dynamically is a compressor!  The alternative is to set the volume for the whole track.
https://flypaper.soundfly.com/produce/compressors-vs-limiters-vs-volume-automation-whats-the-difference/
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"So, with the ability to mimic volume level automation, plus add additional sound characterizations to your tracks, why not just use a compressor every time and call it a day?

There are certainly many cases when using a compressor is a great solution, but there are almost always going to be outliers in any recorded track that don’t quite fit your “one size fits all” compression settings. Those outliers require you to still utilize good old fashioned volume level automation in order to manually place them close enough in line with the rest of the track to work well with your compression settings."
Title: Re: Auto volume leveling
Post by: elcosomalo on 2022-08-13 21:02:16
EBU R128 is NOT an auto volume component, its a compressor. Not the same. I need an auto volume component like Vlevel but it crashes on the latest foobar versions.
I have 20080302.0 version, somewhere from here, did never and does not crash. EBU R128 plugin has no options, for my taste it is way to radical pushing up the very silent parts.


I found that I had "Ear protection" activated by default on the realtek driver, and I think that was making trouble with Vlevel. Fingers crossed, seems stable now.