Sound levels on the Shuffle are inconsistent and troubling

Hi, I'm a new iPod owner. I've been using iTunes for over a year and a half, but only recently got a Shuffle for a gift. I love the little thing, but it has an odd quirk. The volume seems to get higher and lower depending on the album I'm listening to. Sometimes two songs from the same album will play at dramatically different volumes.
Is there a setting in iTunes I'm missing that can help me get the volume to stay consistent througout the playback? Or is it just that some CDs are louder than others? I've gone through all the audio settings in iTunes and they all appear to only adjust how iTunes itself plays music, not the iPod Shuffle. It should be noted that the CDs themselves don't sound that different from one another when played in a CD player.
Any help I can find would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hello, Sam.
Try this:
With the shuffle connected to the computer, open iTunes. Select the little iPod icon in the lower right corner of the iTunes window to open the shuffle's Options. Make sure "Enable Sound Check" is checked. This should help quite a bit, but isn't 100%.
I've used the Mac version of MP3Gain and it may be a little better.
Or you can laboriously go through all the songs, setting their volume levels individually (Show Info) to normalize the way they sound to you on the shuffle. I've done this, too, I hate to admit. I'm back to just using Sound Check and putting up with the songs that are still way off.
Good luck
srb

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