Blue&Me balancing song loudness

The whole blue&me thing of music on a memory stick and not having to bugger about with tapes and CDs is brilliant. One problem I'm having with it though is that some songs play really quietly and others play quite loudly, which means I'm forever adjusting the volume up and down between songs. It seems to be songs ripped from older CDs play quieter than newer ones.

I've looked through all the audio options in the car and also on Windows Media Player, but I can't find anything to balance out the sound level between songs. I can't see it being technologically difficult to do, so I'm sure there must be a way of doing it.

Another problem is that the volume setting seems ludicrously loud. Now I don't mind loud music, but it seems a bit daft that conversation becomes almost impossible beyond 10 and yet the volume goes up to 25+. A side effect of this problem is that the increments in turning the volume up and down are quite large, so sometimes for example 5 might be a bit quiet for what I want and 6 might be a bit loud. Is there a way of adjusting the baseline or input volume in order to move up the range I'm selecting on the car? Again I don't think this should be too difficult because if it's possible to solve my first problem, then effectively this is just choosing the level at which I want the songs balancing.

Guidance gratefully received, thanks in advance.

Hugh