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Just for the sake of completion, I have found out why Potplayer is louder than other players. Deep in its preferences, in the Audio section, a radio button is checked for the option "normalize". Associated with this is another checked option, "boost audio".

Yes, I considered the placebo effect, but there was an identifiable difference in loudness. Making sure, I found the "orban loudness meter", just to make sure, and tried again with a different file, a wave file I had ripped from vinyl, so I knew its history. Potplayer again was measurably louder. I ...

Greetings all, my first post, and I'm very happy to have found this software. I'm no audiophile, but I love music, and have been on a long journey to find a music player that #1: is based on a directory structure. #2: Doesn't crash when presented with .flac or .m4a etc. I used 1by1 but it crashed a ...