# Different volumes for songs on my playlist.

**URL:** <https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/different-volumes-for-songs-on-my-playlist/37578>\
**Category:** Windows\
**Created:** [March 5, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/different-volumes-for-songs-on-my-playlist/37578 "2015-03-05T19:50:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![TacomaSteve](https://forum.audacityteam.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TacomaSteve](https://forum.audacityteam.org/u/TacomaSteve)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/different-volumes-for-songs-on-my-playlist/37578/1 "2015-03-05T19:50:11Z")

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Win 7 64 SP1  
Audacity 2.0.5

When I make a playlist for WMP or on a flash drive for my car, the volumes are different for each song. Can Audacity help with this?  
Thanks,  
TacomaSteve

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**Author:** ![DVDdoug](https://forum.audacityteam.org/user_avatar/forum.audacityteam.org/dvddoug/32/32925_2.png) [@DVDdoug](https://forum.audacityteam.org/u/DVDdoug)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/different-volumes-for-songs-on-my-playlist/37578/2 "2015-03-05T22:06:06Z")

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[**[u]ReplayGain[/u]**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReplayGain) sets all of your tracks to a common “loudness”.

Assuming your car stereo doesn’t directly support ReplayGain, [**[u]MP3Gain[/u]**](http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/) changes the gain of the MP3 itself so it works with any player. There are also similar AACgain and WaveGain versions.

There is a [**[u]Replay Gain Plug-in for Audacity[/u]**](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/replaygain/22589/1).

iTunes has something similar called Sound Check that works on iTunes, iPods, and iPhones (and I assume the iPad).

**NOTE -** Many quiet-sounding songs are normalized (maximized). You cannot make these quiet songs as loud as your loud-sounding songs without clipping (distortion) or without using dynamic compression.

This means that the louder songs have to be reduced and ReplayGain (and the similar programs) must use a slightly lower target volume in order to have “room to work”. **Many of the louder songs in your library will be quieter after applying ReplayGain.**