Originally Posted by jammers:
“So the real issue here is that people use different software to adjust volume levels and then wonders why iTunes does not detect it, has songs that have incorrect ID tags but then blames iTunes and finally someone likes to spend hours creating folders and more folders, that an iPod wouldn't recognsie anyway, instead of just letting iTunes do it for you in a logical manner - artist, album song.
Who wants to spend hours putting new inputs into a fussy homemade filing system?”
No.
The MP3's are not physically adjusted in any way. It's just a piece of information stored in the ID3 tag.
When transferred to the iPod using software other than iTunes, they play back on the iPod just fine. Every other piece of software I've ever played them with had no problems. Every other portable player I've put them on had no problems. The ONLY device/interface that has any trouble with them is the iTunes/iPod combo.
I don't spend hours "putting new inputs into a fussy homemade filing system?". MediaMonkey has a function which will scan all selected tracks, determine the peak volume, and store that information in the ID3 tag (in the form of a very accurate +/- dB reading .... as it should be). Takes about 2 clicks of the mouse and then you just leave it to it (iTunes would still be loading the file system at this point).
As I mentioned, iTunes has it's own normalisation system, but it's crap. It uses a +10 to -10 slider (or at least it did in when we last had iTunes installed on the PC ..... we don't at the moment), if it has a "scan entire library" option, I never found it.
If you actually have a look at MediaMonkey, you'll find it offers a lot of similar functionality to iTunes. Plus a few extras iTunes doesn't have, minus a few other things that are iTunes specific. It's a very nice piece of software and runs a hell of a lot better than iTunes for me on an XP PC. Hardly a "fussy homemade filing system".
ID3 tags and the information they store were around iTunes. If anything, iTunes should be built to work round them, and not vice versa.
Contrary to what some people believe, the world of digital media was not built upon, and does not revolve around, iTunes.