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does VLC player have the ability to balence the playback levels between music in a playlist?
songs recorded in the 80's a at lest 10dB softer than today.
radio stations use an AGC to cotrol this so diferent recoding levels are all the one level on the output signal.

i have tried adding (--audio-filter normalizer --norm-buff-size 10 --norm-max-level 1) and this seems to help a little but mostly does not change the volume, only compresses the sound.
When a really soft song comes along, i need the level boosted as its too soft for the normalizer to touch i think?

any help on having a level balanced playlist would be great.

VLC can use Replay Gain but your files must have been recorded with this info.

VLC has also regular dynamic compression for AC3 and DTS.

how do i generate files with REPLAY GAIN info?
can this be added as metadata in "itunes tags"

my files are mp4 video with aac audio format

check out something called aacgain.. the gui for it is called iGain.