Voice Volume

[mikeage]

Is there any way to adjust the volume of the menu voices?

All of my music was normalized to the same level, and I usually have the volume on my iPod 4G set at between -15dB and -10dB to hear on my stereo. However, with my speakers adjusted so that music sounds good, I can barely hear the menus. Turning up the volume to hear the voices tends to make the music unreasonably loud.

Thanks

[Llorean]

Have you tried turning up the volume, and then making use of the replaygain preamp (I do hope that you're using replaygain, and rather than a flat normalization of the music)

[mikeage]

I use mp3gain (http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/) to do normalization; it's not a flat peak normalization. I didn't want to apply replaygain tags, though, since one of the places I play back music has no support for the tags. Instead, I use mp3gain to modify the volume directly.

I suppose I could re-normalize all my music to a different level; right now I use the mp3gain default of 89dB. For over 5000 tracks, though, I'd rather not do that

[Llorean]

Right now the voice is simply mixed with the audio, and then the volume is adjusted. Another option you have is to create the voice files at a lower volume, but other than that, the volume adjustment would have to be handled in digital (like replaygain is handled). You could always have something mass-add zero-value replaygain tags to your music (I think the tags must be present for Rockbox to do the preamp) then attempt the preamp.

[mikeage]

Thanks for the answers, Llorean.

I might try to play around with the mixing code to see if there's an easy way to set the volume for the audio and the voices.

[bascule]

Can't you just re-normalise the voice files to a higher volume?