I'd highly recommend iVolume for the sound check fixing. You leave iTunes' "Sound Check" turned on, but iVolume replaces the volume adjustment tags in the songs with its own values (apparently it uses ...

I've been using iVolume for several years to set the volume level tags of all my music in iTunes. When I started using it I think iTunes still had a really terrible volume normalization algorithm ...

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