

Thanks for your patience and any clarification. All I know is that when I check that little box (Soundcheck) in iTunes, I'm constantly having to adjust the volume knob up and down and it drives me bonkers.

Or maybe Itunes Soundcheck will over write everything. If I Multi-Encode MP3 and Apple Lossless or FLAC, with just Volume Normalizer, will both the MP3 AND the Lossless file be altered or just the MP3? I think, if I understand correctly this would be the way to go if I'm using Itunes, but then again, if I have other random MP3 files I've received from friends, etc., this might not work either. To use this feature, your music files should have either Album Gain or Track Gain values through volume. Basically this feature helps users to replace Apple's SoundCheck values with more accurate and Album Gain-supported ReplayGain values to normalize playing volume of iPod/iPhones. However, if I have a lot of random MP3 files that were not encoded with Replay Gain and they come up in shuffle, they will sound quieter. Author: redwing MusicBee supports converting ReplayGain values to SoundCheck values for iPod/iPhone users. If I use WinAmp or something that supports Replay Gain it will work and each track (I use shuffle A LOT so would I use track or album or both?) will be played at the same level. If I Multi-Encode MP3 and Apple Lossless or FLAC, with just Replay Gain, there will be a tag written somewhere in ?both? files. I don't know why this is stumping me to get. I'm sorry, I'm so confused with ReplayGain / Volume Normalizer. If you use the VolumeNormalize DSP effect with the "ReplayGain" option chosen, the file is run through the ReplayGain effect, but instead of just tags being written, the audio itself is modified.I wonder why someone would do that because wouldn't you want to not alter the file?

The ReplayGain DSP effect just writes tags to the file, and doesn't alter the audio itself.
