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bogbasic reviewed v1.3.4 Beta on Feb 14, 2011

Seems like it does a very good job that will help to save my hearing when using the in-ear phones. It didn't work on all the files I had in my batch, but if I put the ones it failed on through MP3normalizer (which doesn't seem to do much on its own), MP3Gain can then normalise them after all. Quality of the sound seems fine so I think that here is a program that will stop me going mutton jeff (deaf for non-c***neys)!

Helgji reviewed v1.3.4 Beta on Dec 7, 2006

If you use a real speaker system you can hear the sound quality got worse with this program. Not good.

einstein56 reviewed v1.3.4 Beta on Oct 28, 2005

it seems not lossless

ye110mann reviewed v1.3.4 Beta on Oct 28, 2005

Does what it's supposed to do. It losslessly normalizes the volume of all your mp3s. No more having to adjust the volume for each song.
It does lower the volume of most songs significantly though (for a reason) so you'll have to set your volume higher than usual.
I use foobar2000 to sutomatically reduce the volume of non-MP3gained songs by 7.5db so all songs whether MP3gained or not sound roughly the same.

benZin reviewed v1.3.4 Beta on Sep 24, 2005

I love this prog. Perfect results.

kadavrul reviewed v1.3.4 Beta on Jul 23, 2005

You will not find a better program than MP3Gain! Very easy to use with the best results! The new version can be found here: http://prdownloads.sourc...-win-1_2_5.exe?download

fraksion reviewed v1.3.4 Beta on May 20, 2005

A classic for lossless normalization. No audiophile without this!

Nikkie reviewed v1.3.4 Beta on May 9, 2005

Perfect !!

I just ran into this and really needed this since yesterday . I noticed a track was really loud and another was far too low .

This fixed it with a few clicks ... it didnt even make me reload my winamp playlists .. it recognized the tracks without a reload ... great program

Canuckistani reviewed v1.3.4 Beta on Apr 18, 2005

Oooh, an update! Anyone who uses headphones, wants to listen to music at night when everyone else is sleeping or simply hate having one album quiet and the next one blasting like a 747 taking off are going to just love this thing. It's one of those little "must have".

wagner reatto reviewed v1.3.2 Beta on Nov 4, 2004

very easy interface!

wbonville reviewed v1.3.1 Beta on Oct 21, 2004

This is wonderful, finally there is a way to adjust mp3 volume instability between songs to a stable volume while maintaining the softs and louds with in each number. Perfect, gotta say I love this program. Thanks

Gaffa reviewed v1.2.3 on Apr 5, 2004

I let my software audio player (Foobar2000) do the replay gain, when playing music on my computer. For my hardware player, MP3Gain is perfect.

QBgreen reviewed v1.2.3 on Apr 4, 2004

Excellent idea and method for truly having all of your MP3s at the same base volume. I have several thousand files finished with this program. It's a standard for me.

Bludd reviewed v1.2.3 on Apr 4, 2004

Awesome program. Normalizing done in a not-so-evil way.

thexfile.web1000.com reviewed v1.2.2 on Jan 9, 2004

MP3Gain is a must have!!!

ryanvm reviewed v1.2 Beta on Jun 18, 2003

Excellent program! And styckx, do you have a better idea? The program has to analyze every frame in order to calculate the replaygain value - that's just the way it is. If you think it's too slow, get a faster computer!

styckx reviewed v1.2 Beta on Jun 17, 2003

This program is unbearable if you have a large collection of mp3s, I have over 20gigs of mp3s and the time it takes to analyze them all is just to much for me.. good idea, bad execution

e144539 reviewed v1.1 Beta on May 22, 2003

There was a little bug that was in this release that is supposed to be fixed, I guess without a version number change.

email:

"> the new 1.1 beta changes files date/time while preforming analyzation even
when 'preserve date/time' is checked.

Ah. I'm not _quite_ as stupid as I first thought. I did fix this bug when an
earlier tester pointed it out... but only in the back end. Because analysis
did not affect the mp3 in previous versions, the GUI had no need to pass the
"preserve date/time" flag to the back end when doing analysis.
It was an easy code fix. Now I just have to figure out how to release the
fixed version without confusing too many people, since I haven't even
"officially" announced the 1.1 version yet :)

-Glen"

_Shorty reviewed v1.1 Beta on May 19, 2003

forgot to say, this is much different than simple normalization.

jespielm reviewed v1.1 Beta on May 19, 2003

Thanks!

ryanvm reviewed v1.1 Beta on May 19, 2003

jespielm: Absolutely it's better to use MP3Gain. Nero and such normalize by reducing the amount of information in the file - in other words, it's not lossless (you will lose quality). MP3Gain does it by modifying a global gain header on every frame of the file - an operation which doesn't affect the encoded data at all and hence is lossless!

BTW, great program!

donpacman reviewed v0.9.9 Beta on Dec 12, 2002

MP3Gain! "The Best"

cyberia reviewed v0.9.8 Beta on Dec 9, 2002

Great for pop and rock, but jazz, folk and classical music rely on dynamics that are killed by programs like this one.

Still, great for party and car cd's. Just don't blow away your original files.

darthbeads reviewed v0.9.8 Beta on Dec 8, 2002

An absolutely fantastic program. My burned CDs never sounded so good!

JEdwardP reviewed v0.9.7 Beta on Nov 24, 2002

An excellent program for its purpose. I really like its offering both "track" and "album" analysis/gain. I'm prejudiced toward programs that are updated regularly, which so far this is, but I don't readily see how it can be made much better than it already is.

XF reviewed v0.9.5 Beta on Aug 29, 2002

Tried to use it for adjusting gain before burning audio CDs (not for playing files: TomSteady plugin for that...) instead of using common wav normalizing... Very very good!! :)
Maybe the default volume value (89) is quite low, for me 92 is OK!

Cormac reviewed v0.9.5 Beta on Aug 23, 2002

Really great program :) I was wondering... I've found a program called vorbisgain (runs in a command prompt). If anyone should know how to specify the db-level in that program, or if you should know of any alternative that has a GUI, please step forward and speak ;)

klumy reviewed v0.9.4 Beta on Aug 18, 2002

great program !!

isochar reviewed v0.9.0 Beta on Aug 4, 2002

I get the CAB error too. :/

captainx reviewed v0.9.0 Beta on Aug 3, 2002

This really looks like the program I have been dying to have for a long time, but when I try to extract the program, it tells me that there is a CRC error in the .CAB file. I've re-downed it 3 times AND saved it to different hard drives, all with the same results. I am unable to use this program. Please fix this! I really would like to try this program. Thanks!

busta reviewed v0.9.0 Beta on Aug 2, 2002

If it's not working, make sure you download and install the required VB runtimes since the front-end portion is a VB application. Go the MP3Gain site and download the Full install:
http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/

Cormac reviewed v0.9.0 Beta on Aug 2, 2002

A great program just got better.

dick471 reviewed v0.8.1 Beta on Jul 29, 2002

MP3Gain 0.8.1 Beta: This program works perfect in 98se and XP Pro. I can't get it to load and work in W2000 Pro, but don't care. All my MP3's are on a common scsi drive and using XP and MP3Gain corrected about 7000 MP3's. GREAT Program---Thanks d*** Johnson

busta reviewed v0.8.1 Beta on Jul 28, 2002

Great program, have to use it everytime I make a CD of MP3s for my portable.

The "Y errors" (and red text) aren't errors, it's just telling you that particular MP3 has frames that are clipping or at the target volume the mp3 would clip (very common on recently produced music that is highly compressed and mastered at full scale). If it has ??? then the file may not be MP3 at all or is corrupted, which you can definitely find through peer to peer.

bmh67wa reviewed v0.8.0 Beta on Jul 20, 2002

It's a little slow when doing large amounts at one time and all of the "Y" and "???" errors made me a little nervous but the program does an excellent job of making volume equal for all of my MP3's. I also discovered that defragging the hard drive can make "???" errors appear though it doesn't seem to hurt the MP3 any. I guess this program has better ears than I do!

Chazz reviewed v0.8.0 Beta on Jul 19, 2002

Until now, Easy CD Creator's spin doctor was the only decent program to adjust mp3s. MP3Gain has blown away SpinDoctor and is a breeze to use.

Just load all your directories... and let it run in the background. Does an excellent job and will be giving it 4 thumbs up on our site.

busta reviewed v0.7.5 Beta on Apr 23, 2002

Great utility, a must have for anyone that listens to MP3s and especially for those with portable MP3 players. Very easy to use. Just load all the songs you want to adjust the volume of and push the Radio Analysis button, wait for it to finish then push the Radio Gain button. It does come with a very good help file now.

crabbyappleton reviewed v0.7.1 Beta on Mar 10, 2002

Works well. I like the Radio or Album choice. BTW help works if you browse for it once in the MP3gain/help folder.
I will keep this on my system and be watching for updates.
Thanks

Mart27 reviewed v0.7.1 Beta on Mar 10, 2002

Bravo ! I just love it . Work's great ...been looking for a programm like this forever . Just one thing , the help section aint really usefull ...The database is empty ;) .

Congrat's again for this verry good app !

heave reviewed v0.7.1 Beta on Mar 9, 2002

Works solid...been looking for a proggie that does this.

mfolio reviewed v0.7.1 Beta on Mar 9, 2002

I guess this program could be good...if the program worked after you install it. C'mon guys, fix it and re-post.