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 1SWBDG-0000CT-Dw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 18:50:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFDEAE05DD; Sun, 20 May 2012 18:50:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88F2EE0653 for ; Sun, 20 May 2012 18:49:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FAB51B4009 for ; Sun, 20 May 2012 18:49:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.236 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.236 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.226, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DTAWUskIV61i for ; Sun, 20 May 2012 18:48:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 956531B400F for ; Sun, 20 May 2012 18:48:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SWBBM-0000Lt-9i for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 20:48:44 +0200 Received: from athedsl-355280.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.243.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 May 2012 20:48:44 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-355280.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 May 2012 20:48:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] ogg/mp3 volume Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 21:48:01 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4FB789E2.5050604@wht.com.au> <20120519141906.GA31574@badass.gateway.2wire.net> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-355280.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 16aafbe3-a34a-4215-a964-f05dac145c15 X-Archives-Hash: 9729c678c00271df8f83400931974ca0 On 20/05/12 12:41, Jes=C3=BAs J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > Just for sake of correctness, what the op wants is called normalization= , > in the world of sound edition. Actually, no. That's not what he wants. Normalization simply adjusts=20 to 0db. How loud something sounds however is not a simple matter of=20 what the maximum peak of a waveform is. ReplayGain actually analyzes=20 the music to tell how loud it *sounds*, not how loud it actually is. For example, you can have audio that was normalized (0db) but doesn't=20 sound as loud as, say, -5db audio, but which has compressed dynamic range= . Normalization makes audio equally loud for hardware. ReplayGain makes=20 audio equally loud for humans. :-)