When you play back a file with this metadata, Foobar2000 automatically adjusts its playback volume – think of it as your music player automatically adjusting its internal volume slider. The only thing that seems to fix it is by turning Loudness Equalization, but I'm afraid it isn't the correct. Even after uninstalling and reinstalling the driver the problem persists.
Instead of modifying the sound data, Foobar2000 adds a small bit of metadata to the files. I recently built my Gaming PC and ever since I noticed that the volume is very low even when set to to max. Foobar2000 can scan your music files and determine their relative volumes. If you use the awesome Foobar2000 music player – or another music player that supports ReplayGain – you don’t have to modify the files themselves. This ensures that the music files will play at about the same volume level everywhere, even on hardware devices and software music players without support for ReplayGain. You can modify the music files themselves with a utility like MP3Gain. ReplayGain analyzes the volume levels of your music files and sets them all to a consistent volume. If you’ve got a local music collection on your computer, you can use ReplayGain to even out the volume levels of your music files. You may have to restart VLC for your changes to take effect. Click the Save button to save your settings after you’re done. You can tweak the volume level from the Volume normalizer pane, located under Filters.
