And You Wonder Why Classical Music Is In Trouble II

The post quoted below was found on perhaps the Web's most active and densely populated online forum dedicated exclusively to classical music, and — apart from the inevitable scattering of a number of joke or nonsense posts — was followed by almost four pages worth of mostly sympathetic replies. We quote the post here — verbatim and in toto — without further comment.

Unsteady volume = Most annoying thing about classical music

No other good music genre is like this: no matter at which volume you're listening to, you don't get that volume. Even those industrial electronica / freeform / extreme experimental alternative music won't often do that.

For example, now it's a symphony. This second it's almost not audible, making you wonder if the machine is "buffering", and next second it bursts like a volcano, literally loud enough to harm your ears.

If I'm doing nothing but listening to it, fine, I can stay my fingers on the loud speaker panel and switch volume from time to time. But I am, and many of us are, listening to classical music as a background for our studying / working / etc.. Anyone has a good solution? It could be:

1, find some magical software that automatically adjust the volume.
2, find a specific type of classical music that doesn't have that problem. Piano sonatas seem reasonable to me, but I can't just listen to piano all the time.