I've got like 3,000 movies, I don't wanna convert each one at a time obviously. And my laptop would melt not to mention having to transfer them over and then back etc.

Can I get unraid to run this script on the files and just let it run in the background?

Movies with awful sound mixing:

Dark Knight

Inception

Watchmen

Swear to god just volume up volume down every single scene change in Nolans movies.

Even just wanting to watch Tropic Thunder now, I can barely hear the characters at all then BOOM BOOM EXPLOSION. I tend to have subs on all the time but I would rather read a book than a bloody movie. /rant

My soundbar has DRC but it only goes up to 2, it's an AX3.2.1 HIsense. Sometimes AI mode makes the dialogue great and normalizes the explosions but other times just makes it ALL louder. These are all 7.1 soundtracks. I try the 5.1 if it's available but usually doesn't do much either.

Please don't tell me I need some expensive DAC and free-standing £200 sennheisers or something. I know the mid-range is dialogue, so 5.1 should be better, but just isn't.

I;ve tried turning off surround sound, virtual x, neural x, etc, bass -5, treble -5. Treble +5 helps a bit but still makes high pitched sounds loud.

There's nothing wrong with Nolans movies or your files. The issue you're experiencing is that you're trying to play a 7.1 audio track on a 2.1 speaker system. In a 7.1 speaker system, all the diaglog comes from the center channel and all the other channels play just sound effects, like explosiions etc. But you only have right and left channels + a subwoofer channel that plays the low frequencies.

I don't know what you're using to play your movies, but you should go into your sound settings and look for "downmixing" or something similar. This will force the audio to play 2.0 stereo and solve your issue. Most tv's or media players have something like this. I would never re-encode 3000 movies to stereo... It's a waste of time and resources. And you might end up needing the 7.1 track someday.

You can use unmanic to standardize your media files - relevant plugins would be: AAC Stereo Downmix, Normalize AAC.

But as the other poster said easier to fix on the client end if possible.