My iPod is too quiet. I know what you think. He must already be a victim of hearing loss like in the class action suit recent filed against Apple. That is not the case. My hearing is fine. I have even had it checked recently. And yet the fact remains that my iPod is too quiet. How so you ask? The answer is quite simple really. I am not saying that when I plug my iPod into the ear bus that came with the iPod it is too quiet, but that is not how I use my iPod much of the time. I have a new car stereo which has an external jack into which I can plug an iPod shuffle. The problem I have is that the sound coming from the iPod is much quieter than the sound coming from my CD player built into the stereo. So when I switch from the iPod to the car stereo or the CD player then the volume nearly blasts me from the vehicle if I forget to turn down the volume first. That is one of the major flaws in the class action suite. Apple can’t tell what amount of power is coming from the iPod but cannot actually measure what volume will result. So, thanks very much for thinking of my well being, but keep your hands off my iPod and its volume setting. Perhaps for a change we could all practice personal responsibility for our own volume settings. Oh and kids, especially mine… turn down the volume or it will hurt your hearing.
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February 11th, 2006 at 5:18 am
Okay!! So you think your ipod is too quiet. No man nobody is going to touch your ipod. My dear use your ipod like an ipod and I hope you will enjoy it in future.
March 29th, 2006 at 3:53 am
Hey there,
Have you tried:
1.)In ITunes going to your library
2.)Selecting all your tunes
3.)Right click – Get Info
4.)Ignore the irritating warning!
5.)Sliding the volume adjustment bar fully to the right +100%
6.)Waiting ages (depending size of your library and PC speed) for your machine to process all this.
7.)Connecting your IPod and waiting again for the update?
You might find your IPOD music output volume is just a little bit louder and thus when you connect your CD player it’s just a bit less deafening!!!
Hoping this helps,
Tim Woolfson
http://www.timwoolfson.com
http://www.profitablewebprojects.com
March 29th, 2006 at 3:57 am
Or alternatively you could turn down the output volume on your CD player!!!
June 2nd, 2006 at 9:16 am
I don’t know if you will ever see this… but thanks a lot Tim….. I work in a plastic injection factory and the ambient noise is incredible. Your suggestion helped incredibly. Thanks again
Pete
August 30th, 2007 at 8:54 am
Great tip, thanks Tim.
Yes, my iPod is (was) also way too quiet. Raw Power by Iggy and The Stooges was the only thing I could hear nicely.
January 9th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I have an iPod Shuffle 2 and I cannot hear it at on airplanes. I can barely hear it in the gym above other music and noise. Is this an issue just with teh Shuffle or are ALL iPods outputting very low volume?
January 9th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
In my experience it is all iPods. I have the same problem on a plane… when my wife steals my noise canceling headphones.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
i would like to thank tim woolfson for you r info on increasing ipod volume
YEEEEAAAAHHH! i’m away to listen to drum and bass
kick ass name by th way
November 25th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Tim Woolfson = complete legend.
Well played sir, well played.
My ipod used to be ridiculously quiet, i even brought amazing headphones and it didn’t work, your trick however did the job nicely.
Thanks mate
xx
December 27th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Thank you soooooooo much!!! OMG my quiet ipod has been doing my head in!!
December 27th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Dude i have that same problem not with my car but with my earphones plugged into the ipod shuffle i hate it because i have to edit all 250 of my songs with audacity, I’m trying to see if there’s a fix first. I will try what Woolfson suggest.
January 11th, 2010 at 4:04 am
I had already done the 100% thing. My ipod used to be loud. I could mow the lawn, vacuum the house and rock along to the music, but no more. Now it is useless.
Any other suggestions?
January 11th, 2010 at 11:37 am
I would first double check your ear buds. Usually when that changes for me it is because it is time to replace the ear buds.
February 11th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Thank you Tim!
February 14th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
I have the same thing: in car (through my Yaris’s aux jack), in the gym (through the gym’s stereo aux in –others plug in there’s is plenty loud), etc. Podcasts are the absolute worse. I do the Get Info – Options – Volume slide to 100% and that works. But what a pain in the butt, especially for podcasts since I have to adjust the volume whenever a new podcast is received in iTunes before sending it off to my iPod. There should be a global setting that automatically adjusts podcast volume in iTunes. There should be a global adjustment in the iPod (mine’s a Touch). More examples, imo, of Apple’s shoddy apps.