If Amarok already has sound leveling forgive this post. If it does I can't find it. It would be great to have because I stay up late and don't want to wake up the house when one song starts blasting before I can turn it down.

Also requested in http://amarok.kde.org/forum/index.php/t ... 272.0.html

ReplayGain is approach used. (see http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=26073 and http://www.replaygain.org/)

I had all my audio in a separate partition so I ran the replaygain utility that's part of foobar2000 (see http://www.foobar2000.org/). I also installed amarok-replaygain script and mp3gain too handle new tracks.

Amarok now works almost as well as Microsoft Media Player on wma and mp3 files... there is a slight delay while the volume is adjusted, but for me it's great!  I'm using Fedora 9 with Gnome so I had to do compromise.

Thanks for the info. I will check it out after I repair the damage the hurricane caused. New power supplies for both of my computers.

I didn't think the replay gain script worked anymore, but the later 1.4.x Amarok releases recognize the replay gain tags without it.

SoundKonverter has a tool for calculating and adding or clearing the replaygain tags. Doesn't work for all audio formats, so if you have a variety of audio formats in your collection you may still get some tracks that play loud or quiet.

Most distributions should have the mp3gain and vorbisgain tools which are used by SoundKonverter to calculate the gain. In Debian, by way of the debian-multimedia.org repositories, there is an aacgain tool available, but it hasn't worked for me so far.

Later, Seeker

Okay, I found mp3gain and vorbisgain in the repos and already had soundconverter installed. Sound converter because I am using Gnome. I will try these soon. I should get my new power supplies in the mail today. Many thanks to everyone for the help.