ITunes 12 have sound check?

Does iTunes 12 have the Sound Check feature
Cannot see a way to enable it.

Ed,
Yes. Go to Edit > Preferences > Playback, and you will see a checkbox for "Sound Check."
Ed.

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How come some of my itunes songs have a "check mark" and ones that do not say the file cannot be found.

How come some of my ITunes songs have a check mark next to them and the songs that do not have it, I receive a error message " the file could not be found" The songs are on my Ipod and Ipad2. Is my itunes library screwed up? Can someone tell me how to clean up my library?

This happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout,or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes.
tt2

Bug in iTunes 9.0 Sound Check ?

In iTunes 8.x when you add a new song to iTunes (with Sound Check enabled)
iTunes adjusts or adds the "normalization information" ID3 tag for the song.
iTunes 9.0 doesn't do this anymore.
Is this a bug in iTunes 9.0.0.70 ?
Ps: Programs like iVolume rely on this info.
Edit: 10/09 16:09

See this -> Don’t Panic
"Yesterday (09/09/09, by the way) Apple released iTunes 9. Unfortunately it has a nasty bug that prevents iVolume from analyzing songs that have been imported from a file. All other songs – that is purchased, ripped or converted songs – will still be processed fine by iVolume.
We put highest priority on this issue. All other projects have been interrupted in order to restore full compatibility with iTunes 9 as soon as possible. We already found a solution and are currently busy implementing it. Things look good so far.
So please be patient, a new version of iVolume will be released very soon"

ITunes / iPod EQ & Sound Check

I searched iPod help, and it told me to look at iTunes help, and that didn't answer my question.
Personally, I think the iPod EQ presets suck donkeys. How do I or can I adjust the iTunes EQ & save it as a preset....then apply it to the iPod so I can use that preset?
Also, while I'm at it: If I use the Sound Check in iTunes, does it physically change the .mp3 file...meaning if iTunes adjusted the volume DOWN on a song, would that song play at a lower volume if I open it with another program. Does that make sense??
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*How do I or can I adjust the iTunes EQ & save it as a preset....then apply it to the iPod so I can use that preset?*
You can't.
Only the iTunes presets are used on the iPod. Any custom EQs are not.
*meaning if iTunes adjusted the volume DOWN on a song, would that song play at a lower volume if I open it with another program*
No it will not play lower. The Sound Check adjustment is set in one of the ID3 tags. It does not adjust the music itself.

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Sound check - apple tv

My music library is at iCloud.
When I'm listening my music on apple tv, the volume is often diferent from one song to another.
In iTunes we have "sound Check" that automatically adjusts song playback volume to the same level.
Is possible to do the same when listening my icloud music library on apple tv ?

Yes, there is a sound check option under the audio settings.

Sound Check in iTunes 10.6 is different versus Sound Check in iTunes 8.2

Hi. My OS is Windows 7 Pro-64.
I have lots of CD and I decided to convert them in an mp3 library imported in iTunes (and “manually” in an iPod Classic) with Sound Check on (either in iTunes, or in iPod). I managed it with Windows XP and iTunes 8.2 till last year. I always verified the Volume adjustment of each mp3 and the correlated hex values written in the field iTunNorm (using mp3Tag). So far I was quite satisfied of Sound Check because I use iPod like a “juke-box” (I don’t need a per album normalization).
Last year I updated to Windows 7_64 and to iTunes 10.6 and I went on importing other mp3 files (from my CDs). But, with some test, (I imported the same file using iTunes 8 on a PC and using iTunes 10 on a different PC) I realized (with a very high probability) that:
iTunes 10 apparently don't write iTunNorm tag anymore in the file mp3. I have a Volume adjustment, but with mp3Tag I can’t read any iTunNorm field with the famous ten hex values.
iTunes 10 and iTunes 8 use a different way to calculate Sound Check; Volume adjustments calculated with iTunes 10 are lower of about 0,75-1,25 dB in average against iTunes 8. But sometimes the difference may be very high (-3,5 dB or -5dB for example in iTunes 10 versus iTunes 8).
When I updated to iTunes 10, my old library has been converted into the new format iTunes 10, but the old Sound Check (calculated with iTunes 8) did not change (no new calculation). So when I add new files to the library with iTunes 10, I have a discontinuity with the old files imported from iTunes 8 as far as Sound Check is concerned: the new files sound lower in average than the old ones.
I don’t want to delete and re-import all my files in order to reset and homogenize the whole library (I’d lose all statistics and I’d waste lot of time to pass the file in iPod). And I don’t want using third part software like iVolume.
My questions:
Is it correct what I wrote at the point 1, 2, 3 stated over here and mainly at the point 2 (Different way to calculate Volume adjustments of iTunes 10 versus iTune 8)?
Did iTunes 10 stop to use iTunNorm field to write Check Sound info in mp3 files?
If not, where iTunes 10 write Sound Check info to the mp3 file and how can I read it?
What can I do to avoid the discontinuity in Sound Check values due to the use of iTunes 8 and iTunes 10?
Thanks in advance for your answers.

Assuming that one has the 'Sound Check' feature
selected in both iTunes and on the iPod, do the
volume changes take place when obtaining the audio
via the 'line-out' port on the dock connector?
For the 3G and earlier iPod's, no, Line Out is not affected by Sound Check.
For the 4G and later iPod's, yes, Line Out is affected by Sound Check.
Do some iPods work and others do not? Specifically,
will my iPod mini (2nd Gen) send the adjusted volume
through the dock connector?
I have only actually tested the 3G and 4G models, I cannot say what other models do with any kind of reliability. I would expect that the Mini's would have the Line Out to be soundchecked, but I cannot say that for certain.
Any way of using another method to bring the song
volumes into a more reasonable range?
MP3Gain and AACGain. These modify the MP3/AAC files directly, so after using them, turn off Sound Check everywhere.

Used Sound Check on my iTunes library-did I make a mistake?

Hi all,
I have some rudimentary questions about iTunes, and the "Sound Check" feature in particular.
I've just completed converting my 18K FLAC song library into ALAC, mainly to use iTunes Genius mixes and to be more compatible with my iPhone and Touch. My library was ripped a few years ago when I bought my Sonos system to get whole-house music. At that time, I ripped my CD's into the FLAC to maintain the highest sound quality possible. No equalization was applied during the ripping.
Once I loaded my new ALAC songs into iTunes (converted using XLD), I began experimenting with Sound Check to normalize the volume among my songs, especially where the Genius mixes are concerned (I have quite a bit of classical music). While iTunes started the long conversion of my music to use Sound Check, I started reading about volume normalization and the effects of the quality of the sound. I read that Sound Check was really not the right way to go if I wanted to just normalize the volume; that it also affected the sound quality.
After reading this, I stopped the iTunes Sound Check conversion. Luckily, iTunes had only converted around 400 songs into Sound Check. But now I'm worried about those songs that iTunes did convert, and if I have compromised the sound quality of my ALAC tracks.
How does iTunes determine the Sound Check settings? I initially thought that Sound Check only affected the playback volume of the songs, but upon reading the discussions, it seems to change other things?
Does Sound Check store its parameters in a tag(s)? Or does it physically change the songs themselves? I hope that it does not change the songs, or I'll have to reconvert those 400 songs again.
Is there another program that I can use to just normalize the volume of the songs across my library? In the discussions I read, iVolume was mentioned, but I don't (obviously) have any experience with this program nor any others that affect song playback. Any suggestions as to other apps to investigate would be appreciated.
Thanks for your time.
Mike

Thanks for the reply Jim and for the link to the KB article. I looked through all the tags by showing each one, but I didn't see any that looked like they were populated by Sound Check. I'll read the link you provided to find out more.
Jim VanLeeuwen wrote:
I have used iVolume for some time and have been very satisfied. Of course, at age 64 I no longer have audiophile hearing. You can get information here: http://www.mani.de/ivolume/index.html
I have 52 year-old ears, both of which have tinnitus, so I know about my lack of audiophile hearing I just want to make sure that I don't mess up the audio quality of my songs for the next generation
Thanks again. I'll look at iVolume more closely.
Mike

Sound Check doesn't work for some podcasts?

Apologies for cross-posting, but this didn't get any replies in the Using iTunes section.
Podcasts that I subscribe to are recorded at quite different levels. This is pretty annoying when my morning playlist goes from a really quiet one to a really loud one.
It seemed that Sound Check would be the perfect solution, but not so: while Sound Check has set Volume levels for all the music tracks I checked, and many podcasts, there are quite a few podcasts that Get Info / Summary reports the Volume as "Not available." This doesn't seem to be just a display glitch: when I turn Sound Check on and off, the volume doesn't change on these tracks. As Murphy would predict, the ones that need the most adjustment don't get any
I haven't been able to work out what is different between the tracks that do and don't have Sound Check volumes. Two example podcasts that do get Sound Check volumes are Slacker Astronomy (most recent episodes) and StarDate; two that don't are Classical Music Spotlight and Writer's Almanac.
I tried converting one episode to AAC. As expected, the AAC file gets a Sound Check volume. But it's in the iTunes library Music group, not in the podcast.
Is there any way to get Sound Check to process these other podcast episodes?
iBook G4, iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Sound check is basically useless. Hasn't worked effectively on any model I've purchased. However, as others have pointed out, you can adjust the volume of a song so that your playlists don't cause public embarrassment. Simply do a control "i" on a particular song. In the "info" tab, you can increase or decrease the volume of a particular tune. However, if you make the adjustment, be sure to adjust all of the tune from that album. Otherwise, when you play the album, the song you tweaked will have a different volume from the rest of tunes on the album. It ain't a great fix... but it's better than what the programmers have done with sound check.

Ipod nano sound check

I have a new Ipod Nano (5ht gen) and although I have 'Sound Check' on in ITunes, the volume levels of music played on my Ipod varies by song and/or album and is very frustrating. How do I set or upload the 'Sound Check' attributes to/on my Ipod?

From iPod main screen, do you find a Settings item?
If so, select it, look for Playback item. Do you see *Sound Check* option (on or off)?

DTS CDs and Sound Check

I have successfully imported all of my DTS audio CDs into iTunes using Apple Lossless format. I use the digital outputs of my computer/AppleTV/Airport Express to play back the multichannel sound from these CDs into my audio system (which has DTS decoding built in.) Everything sounds groovy.
This setup is, of course, completely incompatible with any of the audio processing features of iTunes, such as Sound Check, Crossfade Playback, etc. because these features alter the bitstream thus causing the DTS decoder to fail, resulting in white noise.
I definitely want to use the Sound Check feature on my non-DTS tracks. Is there a way, on a per track basis, that I can tell iTunes "Don't use any audio processing features on this track"? I would then apply this option to just my DTS tracks. If no such feature exists, how can I petition Apple to add such a feature, say, in the Get Info area for each track?

Hello,
I have to admit I've never used it but found this Macworld article a very useful explanation:
http://www.macworld.com/article/44344/2005/04/soundcheckyou.html
iVolume which is linked to from the MW article should check all your files again and put the adjusted volume in the ID3 info.
HTH.
mrtotes

Import without Sound Check?

How can I import music without Sound Check attaching a volume adjustment to each track? I have "Sound Check" switched off in Preferences>Playback, but it still makes the adjustment when I import.
OR, how do I strip the Sound check values?
Many thanks.

Here's my problem exactly:
I have a huge library of music I have imported from CDs. They all have dB adjustments attached to them via Sound Check. (These are not adjustments made by the manual Volume Adjustment slider in the Options preference menu.)
I play all my music through Squeezebox. Squeezebox recognizes volume adjustments in iTunes.
I want to be able to use the manual slider volume adjustment but not the Sound Check volume adjustments. In fact I would like to get rid of all the Sound Check volume adjustments since I find that they badly distort the music.
If I delete music from the Library and re-add or re-import (from computer, not CD), the music still has the Sound Check volume adjustment attached.
Simplest solution would be to have the ability to delete any volume adjustment (aka dB) from songs in the iTunes Library.
I understand how to remove any manual volume adjustments but not those imposed by Sound Check.
Many thanks.

Sound Check not Checking

I have sound check enabled in both the ipod and itunes. When I play music on the ipod it seems pretty apparent on some songs that the level is varied. Is that just the way it is?

I never got an answer on this -- but I moved on...

Sound check weirdness

If I have sound check on in iTunes and also on Apple TV 2, it seems to cancel each other out. Song volume is all over the place. Normalize is completely shot. So I turned off the option on ATV2 and left it on iTunes and the music volume is back to nearly normalize levels. Well as close as iTunes is capable of doing. I have ATV 2 via HDMI to my Onkyo receiver. Has anyone experienced this? ATV has been updated to latest firmware release.

I tried turning iron and off. Seems to help but still a bit off on some songs. I guess I'll manually adjust those songs that are obviously way off.

Mp3 CD sound check feature

There is no way to set the sound check feature when burning MP3 CDs Does that mean that it automatically has sound check selected or that you cant have that feature at all when making a MP3 CD?

So the sound check get's transferred to the mp3 cd?
If you have *Sound Check* turned on in iTunes, yes.
When you burn an MP3 CD, the song file is copied to the CD.
Note that *Sound Check* is only used by iTunes/iPods so if you play this MP3 CD in your car player or stereo or with another player on your computer, it will not use the *Sound Check* settings.

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