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[wooismeca]

Hello all.I just made a Music DVD from my i Tunes and now when I play it back thouugh
my home DVD player the music volume is up and down like a toilet seat.I did set the sound check in iTunes. Any suggestions??

[tsantee]

I don't recall this issue being raised before so I'd like to know more about it. Does the volume change within a track or is it between one track and the next? What is the source for the tracks - are they from different kinds of sources? Did you use the default Toast settings?

As an experiment, rip an audio CD with iTunes and drag just those tracks to create a music DVD. Choose Save as Disc Image from the File menu. When that is finished mount the disc image. This should launch DVD Player and where you can play the tracks. Is the sound still variable?

One more thing: Are you using Toast 7.1? Are you up to date with QuickTime and your OS?

Edited by tsantee, 05 August 2006 - 12:01 PM.

[wooismeca]

Thanks for the reply.
Volume  does change between one track and another,Source for the tracks  are from different kinds of sources,some are from imported music from cds some are from music downloaded from the net.,all music is on iTunes and soundcheck is on and it plays fine on my computer.I am using Toast 7and everything is up to date.I have a G5 computer.
Just updated to Toast 7.1
Default Toast settings ??
Excuse me for sounding dumb,but not sure I understand the experiment.You want me to rip [burn ] an audio cd  with iTunes.

[tsantee]

wooismeca, on Aug 5 2006, 02:08 PM, said:

Thanks for the reply.
Volume  does change between one track and another,Source for the tracks  are from different kinds of sources,some are from imported music from cds some are from music downloaded from the net.,all music is on iTunes and soundcheck is on and it plays fine on my computer.I am using Toast 7and everything is up to date.I have a G5 computer.
Just updated to Toast 7.1
Default Toast settings ??
Excuse me for sounding dumb,but not sure I understand the experiment.You want me to rip [burn ] an audio cd  with iTunes.

Soundcheck normalizes the volume differences between tracks when played in iTunes. However, it doesn't change the tracks themselves. This means that low-level tracks won't sound as loud as high-level tracks when burned with Toast. There are applciations that will normalize and save audio files. Among them are Bias Peak, Sound Studio and Roxio's Jam 6. You might try using something like Audio Hijack to record the tracks while playing in iTunes as a way to add to the volume gain.

Now that I understand what's happening there is no need for the experiment. What I wondered was whether tracks from the same source would have the sound level variations, but I'm pretty sure your issue is due to the the levels of the source files you're using and not an issue with Toast changing the levels during encoding.

[wooismeca]

Thanks for the info,find it very helpful---------