Decreasing Line Out Volume

I like to listen to my ipod when going to sleep. I have purchased two speaker systems, the JBL On Stage and Klipsch IGroove, and the lowest volume setting on each is sometimes too loud to fall asleep by. Is there any backdoor way to actually turn down the line out volume from the ipod? If I could turn it down by 10% that would make it possible to adjust the volume low enough for sleeping.
Note I have a 4th generation ipod with click wheel, non color, non photo.
Thanks!
jbanders
PIII Windows XP

If you put the iPod in 'Manual' update mode you can then select all the tunes, and then get info on them, in the information window is the 'Volume Adjustment' section, you can turn down the output volume of one or all songs from there.
If you do it this way however when you next sync, iTunes will replace it with the one in your library, so do this step but do it with the songs in iTunes itself. Your iPod will have to be updated which means all songs will be updated, effectively wiped then replaced, but they will be at a lower volume.
Mark

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AFAIK, Line level is an industry standard (or theoretically standard) 'level'. Everything that outputs to line level should register on say a mixing desk as the same volume.
There could be one or two things happening here. Either the iphone's line out is weak and not outputting the right signal, or it could be the system's your're plugging into.
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I'm sorry about your negative experience with this volume issue in Firefox OS, as well as the update time for your your ZTE Open C.
I understand your frustration about the volume, and this is something that I also experience regularly when connecting my device to an external source. You have my complete empathy on this, and I will continue to push for investigation and a resolution of this issue.
I also understand that you are experiencing a long time for the download of updates on your device. ZTE is responsible for releasing updates, including hosting the update files. This slow download speed may be caused by a slowness on their servers. This is the first time that I hear of this issue, but I will forward this report to our Technical Account Managers if I see other reports around update speeds for ZTE.
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Here is a Youtube video I just found with instructions of how to open a Terminal on Windows, as well as simple basic commands, in case double-clicking the '''flash_windows.bat''' does not work:
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Swake
I have an iPod Classic 120GB and have just connected it to the dock that came with my old iPod Photo (using a piece of cardboard as a dock adapter because, for some reason, the dock design must have changed and the dock adapter that came with the classic won't fit).
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Cheers Jeff,
I have the older 60gb iPod, but I don't believe goPod works with the latest firmware either. I have used goPod to try and uncap my iPod and although it says that it has uncapped, I noticed no difference in volume output. I even hooked my iPod up to my PC, then ran it through SoundForge to test the levels capped and uncapped and the results were identical.

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OK, this is a complicated one. For the past four months, I had a rather ancient PC. I used this to play music, as it was connected to a Logitech 5.1 computer speaker system, which was attached to the three ‘out’ ports in the back of the PC. I also had an electric piano connected to the PC through the ‘in’ port in the back of the PC. I was able to play the piano and hear the sound through the speaker system.
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I called Apple tech support, sitting on the line for about 45 minutes in all. They could not help me, and could only direct me to the Apple Discussions site.
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I called my mother, who happens to know a thing or two about sound. No luck. I called my brother-in-law, who works for one of the big three internet companies. No luck.
I'll try to hold off with the editorial comments for now, but suffice it to say that this is my first Mac experience, and any helpful advice would go a long way toward soothing my feelings about Apple right now.
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I've also retried every possible combination in the old PC, just to make sure I wasn't fooling myself before, and at the moment I cannot pick up any radio interference there whatsoever, no matter how hard I try.
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1.1. Trash file com.apple.BezelServices.plist in your Home > Library > Preferences folder.
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The SBX-Fi receives the encoded SPDIF.<
The drivers decode it into the 5 digital audio signals. This siimply regenerates what was put into the encoding and has no effect on its "volume."<
The 5 digital audio signals are sent to the SBX-Fi hardware, as is.<
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-Dave
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The soundblaster card properties in device manager shows no conflicts....everything is working fine, but there is a setting somewhere that is being missed I suspect; I have gone ever every option in all of the soundblaster audigy audio control software installed that came bundled with the card, checked online for latest drivers which I've got installed, and did a clean uninstall/reinstall using creative's 6 step-by-step guide. I also checked all windows xp based audio controls even though I've checked the option that enables the audigy controls to sync with the windows ones as you probably already know.
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