I also recommend a ReplayGain program – someone mentioned mp3gain, which is supposed to be pretty good. I use the ReplayGain feature in foobar myself.

Ah, indeed, indeed. That’s a fine reason for putting together a new machine! *smiles*

I’m kind of the same way with games. I have machine that will at least run most things out there, but so very seldom actually sit down and play any of them. Even the lat two games that I found myself really obsessed with at first (Civilization Four and City of Heroes/Villains) haven’t managed to get more than foot in the door to my schedule. Ah well….

I don’t think we talked about it before. It’s a small little freeware app … http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

The nice thing, is the gain adjust is lossless.

I think it’s mp3 only, hence the name. But you could encode the source audio as high-rate Mp3’s without much trouble.

Well, part of it is that I want to build a new system as it has been ages since I have had that luxury.

That way we can have a central box for files and also have some power for either publications stuff or maybe try my hand at some of the nicer games out there (not that I usually game so much).

*nodnod* Yeah, the bottleneck is going to be bandwidth, not processor speed. I would think that would hold true even for most streaming video. I guess it depends on the resolution though. Were it my hardware, I’d probably sit on for three months saying I don’t have the time, then set it up and try it out and do some testing to see what, if any, is the limiting reactant.

The volume normalizer would be fantastic! Could I get a copy of that? Does it work on other audio? Could I normalize levels on, for instance, theatre pre-show music?

Did we already talk about that?

oof. This is Shockwave, btw.