The only Normalizing I'd ever consider is ReplayGain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_Gain

A PlugIn for SqueezeBox could be built to control Volume over RS-232 to the Meridian Setup.

"Sound Check" should be called "Sound Corrupt". "Sound Check" will compress, it has to !!! Whatever floats your boat.

Shuffle is the best thing since sliced bread. You can Shuffle Albums, by Genre, or within PlayLists. It's wonderful for some of us. I wish SqueezeBox had a button though that when shuffling songs that when I hear a song, I could just click "Play Album for Current Song". Yet another SqueezeBox Plugin could probably do that.

- Fiddler (IMHO)

If you think listening to music is fun, try learning an instrument.
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