ITunes volume control

Does anyone know if there is any way to make sure the music I record is all being recorded at the same volume. Right now, when I play my music, every song is at a different volume setting, sometimes ear-jarringly so. While listening, I have to keep adjusting the volume, which is especially annoying when I'm listening in the car.
Thanks,
Joanne
Roseville, CA
G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

This isn't an answer - rather glomming on to say I experience the same issues. {Didn't see fit to posting still another question about volumes, as I think I have one of these out there already - and several other people do. Partly because of sketchy & poor headers, I suppose}.
I know there is the SOUNDCHECK setting & that there is an individual track setting - neither does the trick!
SoundCheck & individual iTunes adjustment (under "get info for specific tunes" does not work.
I have had this problem for ages - ever since I started using iTunes for my purchases & burning. I've been updating - up to current X.4.10 - it hasn't worked in several revs (it NEVER has).
The last recent update to X.4.10 was the full installer 140+ MB.
running on a PPC G5.
If this is such a common problem, I hope they cover this in depth in the help files for Leopard.

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I will do my best to assist you in the hopes of resolving the issue with the sound button. The steps that I would start of with first, would be to do a hard reset. I have included the document Performing a Hard Reset or Forced Reset.
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With the included scripts in Mainstage, I was surprised not to find one for controlling iTunes volume.
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Thanks in advance

Well, I hope someone can find a solution to my issue. (itunes sound volume using sliders)
Thanks for your input guys.
My knowledge of Applescript is very basic, however, I did find a script for changing the itunes sound volume using buttons.
One button increases and the next button decreases the sound volume a little bit at a time.
Here are the scripts. I modified one I found online. There may be some unnecessary lines.
on action(parameter)
tell application "iTunes"
if the sound volume is less than 95 then
set sound volume to (sound volume + 5)
else
set sound volume to 0
end if
end tell
end action
and to decrease use the one below.
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Message was edited by: Brian I.

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I noticed that the swipe up control screen volume control does not affect the volume on my speakers of the Denon which is perfectly connected with apple tv. The only thing which controls the volume is the Denon volume control.
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This is a problem that has been around for a while (ie. pre-Leopard).
Why is there *no global volume control* when using digital audio output? This includes the inability to mute the output as well as adjust the volume with either the keyboard or the apple remote.
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nitramluap wrote:
It IS possible, actually and its omission makes no sense.
Yes, it is possible but it isn't desirable. Here's why:
For any linear digital audio encoding process, the bit depth determines the resolution of the volume levels the format can reproduce. For example, for 16 bit audio there are 65536 possible volume levels between dead silent & the absolute maximum possible level (digital clipping). For 24 bit audio there are about 16.7 million levels.
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At first, this doesn't seem so bad but the problem is the human ear doesn't interpret "one half as loud" as you might think: hearing is logarithmic (which is why we usually use the logarithmic unit "dB" to measure it), so a sound that is 1/2 the intensity of maximum is only slightly quieter to the ear. Depending on the maximum level the digital input device can produce, it could easily be necessary to scale the digital output to one ten thousandth or less of the maximum output just to achieve a comfortable level, & to scale it much smaller still for background music levels.
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MenuBar volume control does not work

itunes volume control DOES control the volume of my external speakers which are attached to a ProSonus FireBox.
Website links with controls of audio DO control the volume of my external speakers which are attached to a ProSonus FireBox
However, the main Mac MenuBar sound control slide bar does not control the sound itunes or these websites AND the MenuBar sound control slide bar does not control either my internal or external speakers.
Sound Control panel Input Panel is set at the PreSonus FireBox (0260) device with mic setttings at mid level and the master output volume set about 1.5 units up with "show volume in menu bar" box checked and Mute box clear of checkmarks.
The Sound Control Panel Output panel is set at Presonus FireBox (0260) with the master output volume set at 1.5 units with "show show volume in menu bar" box checked and Mute box clear of checkmarks. Controlling the slider from the Sound Control Panel DOES control the slider in the Mac MenuBar but not the sound.
The fact that sound is coming out of the firebox indicates sound from itunes and web site sound links IS being redirected from the internal speakers to the firebox and then the firebox is redirecting the sound to the external speakers.
However, the volume control at the mac is not sending out a lower
signal to the firebox or the firebox is not responding to the lower signal or something else has control over the volume control.
There are two clues. The volume control of itunes DOES work and the manual control of the Firebox is working.
Another interesting observation is that the "Sound Effects" panel of the Sound Control Panel does appear to work correctly; the alerts are supposed to work through the internal speakers (as the drop down list box is selected that way) and the Master volume does limit the alert volume. But I find it interresting that the Master volume is coupled to the internal speakers when the Master Volume should be coupled to the firebox (and then through to the external speaakers).
osx: 10.5.2
Imac G5
Burr Brown PCM3052
presonus FireBox
mdl: 0x10000
GUID: 0xA9200D7030104
software version: 0x10001
unit spec ID: 0xA02D

Hi stoye-
You cannot control the volume of the digital signal. The presonus converts the digital signal to analog and the volume control is done there.
Luck-
-DP

Installed iTunes on my laptop Windows 7 64 bit and I now have the following problems 1) iTunes volume won't adjust with the laptop volume control, only within iTunes, 2) playback doesn't work unless I click play twice and 3) the iTunes Store won't open

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Using apple remote to control iTunes volume

This must have been covered before. I searched through 12 pages and couldn't find the answer. I simply want to be able to control the iTunes volume with my white apple remote. Presently it will only control system volume and I'm going out to a different device where system volume has no effect.
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I too play iTunes to remote speakers (airplay express, apple TV, IOS devices running Speakers app.) The volume buttons on my Macbook Air control the laptop speakers but won't control the iTunes application volume when playing Airplay. Going to iTunes to click on a slider is frustrating when there are volume buttons on the laptop.
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