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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Decreasing volume of an mp3 audio
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:21:47
Message-Id: 58965d8a0908241221u1da44fc6gbeca63a926ae0e9d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Decreasing volume of an mp3 audio by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:32 PM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > is there an application, which is able to physically decrease
5 > the volume level of an mp3 with as less as possible loss of
6 > sound quality.
7 > (Background: I am merging video parts done with my webcam
8 > with sound trailers. Volume of the webcam's mics and
9 > the volume of the mp3 should be not too different.)
10
11 As Volker said, I think normalize will do the trick. It can normalize
12 a batch of sound files so their volume level is the same. I would,
13 however, suggest you decompress the MP3 into a lossless file, that way
14 you aren't re-encoding and reducing sound quality further.
15
16 Also, your video editing software may be able to adjust the volume of
17 the individual audio tracks. Kdenlive, for example, has a normalize
18 audio track filter.