Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

[Willie Matthews <matthews.willie@gmail.com>]

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Nice! I will have to go and try that one soon.

On 05/19/12 05:22, Pandu Poluan wrote:
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> On May 19, 2012 7:00 PM, "Andrew Lowe" <agl@wht.com.au
> <mailto:agl@wht.com.au>> 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,
> >
>
> What you're looking for is called "replay gain" (alternative spelling,
> "replaygain"). Basically, it's a two-step process : (1) analyze the
> 'effective loudness' of a track, and (2) add a tag indicating the
> difference between the measured 'effective loudness' with a reference
> level of 89 dB SPL
>
> http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=ReplayGain
>
> The above wiki article might be out of date with regards to the
> available software. Try asking around in the HydrogenAudio forums.
> They are a bunch of friendly guys ;-)
>
> (PS: my handle there is "pepoluan", although honestly I haven't
> dabbled in any forum discussions for several years.)
>
> Rgds,
>

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Willie Matthews
matthews.willie@gmail.com


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