Hi
MP3 Gain is a nice piece of software that can normalize your tracks, but it cannot fix clipping.
Instead I recommend Platinum Notes which can fix clipping and brings tracks to the same volume.
You may have also have read about high audio compression in the MP3 Gain help file, this is not to be confused with a WAV file being compressed into an MP3 file, rather its where the track is essentially made unnecessarily loud.
Just as clipping can affect the quality of the music negatively so too can this. For instance the clarity of the music such as the beat can be affected where it may not have as much punch to it as it should do.
Platinum Notes can to a certain extent reverse this type of compression, so for example the beat will sound better as a result.
The downside to this program is that its not free ($98 US Dollars) but its not overly expensive when you consider what it can do for your tunes.
The program does not overwrite your original tunes since the program creates a copy of the track in its own directory.
The best file format to use with the program are Wave files or equivalent since you will lose some data using MP3 or AAC (itunes) files. However its fine to use with MP3, most of my tracks are in MP3 and I’ve noticed the improvement in the resulting file compared to the original MP3.
There’s no way now I would use the original unedited MP3 file that’s for sure !
http://www.platinumnotes.com/
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