Determining audio volume

When I opened iTunes last night, it began to scan my files and it says its "Determining Audio Volume". We did not select this, don't know why it started and don't know how to stop it. Any ideas?
Thanks.

I had the same problem and determined it started when I burned a CD and used sound check. Even though I did not have sound check turned on in preferences, playback, it was still checked for burning. I burned a new CD, and unchecked sound check there and the determining audio volume stopped.

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I had the same problem, but I think I've found a cure.
Even though Sound Check was disabled in preferences, iTunes would insist on Determining Audio Volume everytime it was launched. But there is also a 'Sound Check' preference in the Burn CD dialogue.
To turn it off you need to select a playlist, hit the Burn Disc button (bottom left) select Audio CD as the disc format and un-check 'Use Sound check'
Then you must hit the 'Burn' button (if you don't it will not remember the new settings) You can then cancel the burn by clicking the X in the itunes player window.
This has cured the problem for me

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I'm suffering from continual Determining Audio Volume. I figured if I left it running all night, Iit would complete. But it's only at 1,049 of 49,000+ files. At this rate, it would take months to complete! this is insane.
And this is happening after "Soundcheck" was unchecked in Edit > Preferences > Playback.

I had the same problem, but I think I've found a cure.
Even though Sound Check was disabled in preferences, iTunes would insist on Determining Audio Volume everytime it was launched. But there is also a 'Sound Check' preference in the Burn CD dialogue.
To turn it off you need to select a playlist, hit the Burn Disc button (bottom left) select Audio CD as the disc format and un-check 'Use Sound check'
Then you must hit the 'Burn' button (if you don't it will not remember the new settings) You can then cancel the burn by clicking the X in the itunes player window.
This has cured the problem for me

Determining audio volume every time iTunes opens

The library I maintain for my iPod is located and managed on my desktop computer. Any time I open the library remotely using my laptop, it goes through that "Determining Audio Volume" thing for about 1300 songs. I let it run its course last time, thinking it would be done with it for good. When I opened the library (using the laptop) this morning, it went through the same thing. Same number and same songs. This seems to slow the machine down, due to iTunes being a RAM hog.
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Hi,
I hav exactly the same problem. Didn't find a solution yet. YOu? It started when I ticked 'use volume check' when buring a cd. I unchecked it, no result. I reinstalled iTunes, no effect.

Why is my iTunes insisting on 'determining audio volume' every time?

I upgraded to iTunes 9 a few weeks back and seemingly from that point onwards my iTunes application wants to 'determine audio volume' on a great number of tracks as soon as the program is launched.
The setting is unticked in Preferences on iTunes and on the iPod I synch with.
I don't want it to be doing this, especially as I'm quite happy to manually change this level if I feel its required, but can find no way of preventing it, aside from clicking on the 'x' in the top window whenever it starts - which is becoming tiresome.
I've tried deleting the cache file in Library > Caches and also starting up in Safe Mode and then opening again in normal mode but all to no avail.
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Make sure you have also unticked sound check in the burn settings dialog you get when you burn a playlist to disc.

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Hi
Had this a while ago and its come back and this time the fix I found does not work.
Every time I start iTunes it starts looking at all the audio in the lib 6000+ and starts determining audio volume.
How do I stop it?
Heeeellllp

In iTunes, head to Edit -> Preferences. When the window comes up, head over to the Playback tab and remove the tick mark next to Sound Check.
B-rock

"Determining Audio Volume" question

Hello,
While fooling around on iTunes, I somehow changed a setting so that the rectangular window at the top of the screen, which normally shows the song being played, the status of syncing, etc., now shows the message, "Determining Audio Volume" and appears to be running through all the songs on my Mac. I can click the "X" to the right of the window and that stops the activity for the time being, but the next time I open iTunes, it starts all over. I can't figure out how to stop this activity.
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Let it finish? How many years should I wait? iTunes is totally disabled by this "feature". If I stop the Determining, the program freezes and I have to force quit. If I try to select a song while it's doing this, the same. I have un-installed and re-installed and gone back to prior versions and used previous libraries and yada yada ad nauseum. Why is support so poor? My impression is that this application just ties itself in knots that cannot be untangled. I have no videos, no podcasts, no state-of-the-art stuff, but I do a lot of live recording (mp3s and WAV files) and want to archive and manage it in iTunes (what alternative do I have?), and it seems utterly deficient for that task. Whenever I try to play anything on the computer, the audio defaults to iTunes, and that's the end of that. I've tried Audacity, but it's slow and cumbersome and doesn't burn audio cds.
Why is iTunes so problematic, and why do we have to wade through thousands of discussions with helpful titles like "help" to look for solutions? I've had Macs since 1984, and this is just sad.

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I have the same problem with automatically "determining song volume" every time I launch iTunes, and it's with over 40 GB of music, a real pain in the neck. I believe it might have something to do with how you import songs from a cd or how you burned a cd and reimport them. If you burn a cd with the "use soundcheck" option, this might be the culprit, but I don't know how to adjust the whole library to forget soundcheck altogether. I tried selecting all tracks, get info, and setting them all to 0 under options for volume adjustment, but that didn't work. Anyone else have any ideas?

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FIX - iTunes Crash while "Determining Song Volume"

I figured out how to make iTunes stop crashing on "Determining Song Volume". This may not fix it for everybody, but if you have a Dual-Core processor, it's worth a try.
iTunes' SoundCheck scanning process (aka determining song volume) is not fully thread-safe. When it's trying to scan several songs, it launches each one in a separate thread. On a dual-core or dual-processor machine, this means that the scans happen simultaneously. My guess is that the decoding/scanning is perfectly fine, but the bit where it's writing the updated information into iTunes database is not. And so it eventually hits a case where both threads try to write at the same instant and bam, crash. Probably because a lack of mutex locking on the database routines.
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1. Start iTunes. If it starts scanning immediately, hit the X icon to the right of where it says "determining song volume" to make it stop and not crash.
2. Go to preferences and turn off SoundCheck. Also turn off "Use soundcheck when burning CDs" or something like that.
3. Open the Task Manager (CTRL-SHIFT-ESC). Click the Processes Tab.
4. Right click on the iTunes.exe process, and select "Set Affinity..."
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It's called RunFirst.exe and what you do is to put a copy of it in the iTunes directory. Then change the shortcut you use to start iTunes to have the full path to runfirst.exe followed by the normal path to iTunes.exe. SO change the shortcut's properties to look like this:
"C:\Program Files\iTunes\RunFirst.exe" "C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe"
This makes the shortcut launch RunFirst, which launches iTunes with the CPU Affinity forced to one core only.
That should fix it for a lot of people. It worked for me. So enjoy!
Apple can fix this in future revisions of iTunes, if somebody tells them to check that all the bits are totally thread-safe, because clearly that's where the issue lies.

Sarah: Sound Check (and other volume leveling schemes) usually do lower the volume. There's lot of good technical reasons for this, but the basic gist of it is that songs which are too loud cause distortion. If you want louder music, your best bet is to leave the Sound Check on and crack up the volume knob on the speakers instead. Most audio sources are actually too loud to begin with, because people think loud = better, but this ruins the dynamic range and you don't get the full effect of the audio. CD's really would sound just as good as live performances if it were not for this.
Sound Check doesn't actually change the song's volume itself. It just inserts a tag saying what the volume of the song is. On playback, the volume is auto adjusted to conform to an optimum level. ReplayGain works in much the same way, but it is much more precise. But anyway, turning off the Sound Check option really does turn the effect off. Sound Check doesn't permenantly change the music to begin with.
My suggestion is to not use the volume slider on the computer, but to leave Sound Check on, and to instead simply turn up the volume on the speakers. Using the speaker volume won't distort the music in the same way that using a volume slider on the computer will. I could explain why, but it's really technical, having to do with amps and dynamic range and so forth. You're probably not that interested.
But if you are interested, go over to the HydrogenAudio forums and start reading. More technical gibberish there than you can shake a stick at.

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Hi there! I just submitted this as a bug report. Does anyone have any workarounds, or fixes? Thanks!
After determining the volume of about 300 or so songs, Windows reports "iTunes has stopped working". No particular kind or group of files is affected - by restarting iTunes, it can usually check the volume of the song that had appeared to make it crash. However, after another 300 or so songs, it crashes again before it can finish the entire library.
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Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: iTunes.exe
Application Version: 7.7.0.43
Application Timestamp: 487517e1
Fault Module Name: iTunes.exe
Fault Module Version: 7.7.0.43
Fault Module Timestamp: 487517e1
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 004e9444
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 5129
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
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I also have the same problem. I have iTunes 8 and when it's says it determining the volume on my podcasts it stop and tells me the iTunes has stopped work. There go my 78 podcasts!!

Audio volume low when computer wakes from sleep - os x yosemite

I've been having an issue ever since I upgraded to OS X Yosemite, where the audio volume coming out of my external speakers is extremely low after I wake my computer up from sleep. The only resolution I have found is restarting the computer. Once I do that, the audio volume is great. If I were to boot up my computer after it has been completely shut down, the audio volume is also great. The issue only occurs after sleep. Anyone else having a similar issue? Is there another fix besides restarting the computer?
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Your HP 650 is a commercial product and to get your issue more exposure I would suggest posting in the commercial forums. Here is a link to the Commercial Notebook forum.
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Before the upgrade when I reboot Mac OS X the audio volume is at the same level I left before.
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Roberth wrote:Set the the desired audio volumes with alsamixer, run alsactl store, and start the alsa daemon and make sure it starts at every bootup.
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