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

[Andrew Lowe]

On 21/05/2012 10:51 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
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> On May 21, 2012 9:18 PM, "Andrew Lowe" <agl@×××××××.au
> <mailto:agl@×××××××.au>> wrote:
>  >
>
> [ze schnipp]
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>  >        Aarrrggghhh, I'm getting confused. More background on my
> original question. I work in a liquor store and the manager insists on
> playing the usual crappy FM radio station, "MORE HITS WHEN YOU WANT THEM
> AND WE HAVE THE BEST VARIETY......blah blah blah". I'm going crazy so
> I've loaded up a memory stick with music from my media machine and using
> a small Android tablet, play the music through the sound system instead
> of the radio. As you can guess this is not audiophile central, a cheap,
> quite old "3 in 1" sound system, one speaker one end of the shop,
> another in the middle of the shop.
>  >
>  >        I can't do the turn up/turn down thingy as I might set the
> level when I start, and it may happen to be a quiet song. I then head
> down the other end of the shop, the track finishes and is then followed
> by a loud track, which is most likely excessively loud for a shop. Or
> conversely I start with a loud track, set the level and then it's
> followed by a quiet track and the shop goes quiet.
>  >
>  >        I have no intention of applying whatever process to the media
> machine, the tracks on that remain as ripped. I only want to "fiddle"
> the tracks on the memory stick. As this is on an Android tablet, quite a
> cheap one at that, I'm also not sure how whizz bang the media player is
> so if I can get away with the tracks being as "standard" as possible
> would be good - my reading earlier on in this thread leads me to believe
> ReplayGain may not, although I'll prepared to test, be supported.
>  >
>  >        So with that background, normalise or ReplayGain?
>  >
>
> LOL don't tear your hair out, bro :-)
>
> My suggestion:
>
> 1. Go find someone with a PC, install "foobar2000" music player, load
> all your tracks, and let it apply Replaygain

Already have that covered, it's what I use on my research computer at Uni.

>
> 2. Go to the Android Mark... uh, Google Play Store, and search for
> "replaygain". There are several music players that will honor replaygain
> tags. Some of them are free.

Looks like something called "DeadBeef" will handle the situation. I'll 
install that tomorrow and test.

>
> Rgds,
>

	Thanks for the info,
		Andrew