From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SViWg-0003NY-GV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 May 2012 12:12:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF7FBE0AF3; Sat, 19 May 2012 12:12:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-f53.google.com (mail-pb0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F185CE0587 for ; Sat, 19 May 2012 12:09:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbbrr13 with SMTP id rr13so6140844pbb.40 for ; Sat, 19 May 2012 05:09:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=7OFAR0culkriDDU4X+T+4aK/07n/SuQ7cc4kal7wH90=; b=XkDC9M9puAglOWMTu7OT2uPbQ2iZ8a0aWWOqiX/g44WHCT3si2i0rEloldTdUoag4+ Wuf2UX6btAdolzjZcfwrNO0TozfDPqnCQIjXz3K9T6yzndt4AhamZgeaKLPy7lxMkGA0 Kcl7nl7T/imQsT15/zqrR3Y03Crxa9rE/rwEw+cfSiEShgICOkb/sbA/1++PdVH0dOGe hy6IigCWQ+l+R5G+2POIH5zuBPWNKHaLJ17l/Ahzkysw+NT3Q+H4bNJdFPdYi9cJOM/w bHxsc+ytR+Lb/RZfYYKNYGfKhcHkIaG7vPlzH9NnF1oruHLMYyKG5KQ8F8T7+cBHbE48 TEmg== Received: by 10.68.234.200 with SMTP id ug8mr511000pbc.54.1337429364405; Sat, 19 May 2012 05:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.99.112] ([67.239.210.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id rv5sm16115631pbc.56.2012.05.19.05.09.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 19 May 2012 05:09:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FB78D71.2060104@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 05:09:21 -0700 From: Willie Matthews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120414 Thunderbird/11.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume References: <4FB789E2.5050604@wht.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4FB789E2.5050604@wht.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c3dd278f-ba46-4230-a82b-4b35cd74d87d X-Archives-Hash: 0677bf067598df474aaba55a1a33c8f7 On 05/19/12 04:54, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > Is there a way to change the "volume" of a mp3/vorbis track? By > volume, I'm referring to lining up several tracks on your > computer/phone/tablet/thingy, setting the one volume level and then > letting them play. For example, the first track will be quiet, of all > ironies my Led Zeppelin tracks are all like this, the next track will > be loud, the next track "in the middle", in other words it's > Goldilocks and the three bears with audio tracks. > > Is there a way I can either during the ripping process, or > subsequently in a post-processing, make the "average" volume of all my > tracks the same? > > Any thoughts greatly appreciated, > > Andrew > > > > There is a program out there called "normalize". Best practice is to do it while you are ripping the CD. -- Willie Matthews matthews.willie@gmail.com