Equalizing or Normalizing even sound for wav

[luckyvic]

How do I equalize or normalize all songs (wav) to about the same even levels?
Can they be all processed in batch?

thank you,
Victor

[kozikowski]

That's what Chris's Compressor does.

http://theaudacitytopodcast.com/chriss- ... -audacity/

It simulates a broadcast compressor system that squeezes everything into the same volume.

It does change the character of some songs, but that's how they work.

The other tools like Effect > Normalize and Effect > Amplify are arithmetic tools and don't work on loudness. If you have a show with lots of expression and a dense dance tune, the dance tune will always come out far louder than the expressive one with the standard tools. So they won't do what you want.

Effect > Compression works somewhere in the middle, but requires you to hand tune the effect and the overall volume before you apply it.

Koz

[luckyvic]

Alright! Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.
I do have one more problem if I may ask here. When I play the songs either directly from the wav file or from a burnt cd on Foobar,
the artists, track number and title are not displayed the same. Hoe do ID Tag the wav file?

Again, thank you for your help.

luckyvic

[Trebor]

Hoe do ID Tag the wav file?

You'll need an additional piece of software to produce metadata which is compatible with ID3: an ID3 tag editor, (apparently itunes will do it), or "Mp3tag" [which despite the name does WAV too] ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/search.ph ... tor+itunes

[kozikowski]

Music CDs do not carry metadata or song titles. They seem to because when you put a CD in the computer, the machine goes on-line and looks up the titles. If you put a fresh Music CD into a machine not connected to the internet, the song titles will be something like: song1, song2, song3.

Koz

[luckyvic]

OK, got it. Thanks.