[Kate Parker Adams]

If you are ripping stuff to .mp3 for your computer sound system, there is a 
freeware player called Ashampoo that allows you to adjust the levels at 
which your tracks play back such that you don't turn it up for an older 
track and then blow yer winders out on the next.

Ashampoo also plays any mixture of a number of formats - I originally found 
it for ogg vorbis.

kPa

At 06:28 PM 9/10/03 +1000, [name removed] wrote:
>  Yes you are right Rick, the volume is much lower on the early
>  albums and if you have nice Hi Fi this is to your advantage.
>  Unfortunately CD mastering standards dropped in recent years
>  and the American Music Industry standard is to make em really
>  loud so it sounds huge at all times over the radio and out of your
>  shitty little boom box. Though once you put these discs on great
>  Hi Fi you don't get the same amount of modulation from your
>  music (as you would older CD's or some that are mastered in the
>  UK).

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