Drag an uncompressed audio file onto the app.

Let me explain the steps to leveling audio with The Levelator: The Levelator is of course still free, and is just as easy to use as it ever was. The people wept.īut this week, rising yet again like a phoenix from the ashes, in another surprise move, The Conversations Network released a fully compatible 64-bit version of The Levelator in the Mac App Store! What a welcome surprise. Then in a surprise move, The Conversations Network released a slightly tweaked version that worked on the Mac and there was dancing in the streets of Podcaster Land.īut then it died again when macOS Catalina came out which allows only 64-bit software. A hack was figured out to keep it working though as documented by TidBITS at the time. The Conversations Network dropped support of The Levelator in 2012, and when El Capitan was released in 2015 it was no longer compatible. The SMR Podcast has great audio levels thanks to my incessant nagging of Chris, Rod, and Robb. Over the years, as a public service, I would send podcasters I liked screenshots of how uneven their audio was between their hosts and then instructions on how The Levelator would instantly fix these problems. It became a favorite tool of podcasters because it was so easy to simply drag an uncompressed audio file onto The Levelator and watch the little animation show progress and then get a beautifully leveled audio file. It was released for the Mac, Windows, and Linux. Gigavox Media transferred rights to The Conversations Network, and they eventually released The Levelator to the public for free as a way of helping all podcasts improve their audio quality. At the Podcast Expo in 2005, Doug Kaye of The Conversations Network demonstrated a tool they were using called The Levelator created by Gigavox Media to level out their audio before publication.

An unfortunate side effect of having all these different contributors was that the volume of the recordings was very uneven. In the earliest days of podcasting, a company called The Conversations Network had a show that used volunteers to record segments for the show.