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On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> wrote: |
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> On 21/05/2012 2:48 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> On 20/05/12 12:41, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: |
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>>> Just for sake of correctness, what the op wants is called normalization, |
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>>> in the world of sound edition. |
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>> Actually, no. That's not what he wants. Normalization simply adjusts to |
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>> 0db. How loud something sounds however is not a simple matter of what |
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>> the maximum peak of a waveform is. ReplayGain actually analyzes the |
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>> music to tell how loud it *sounds*, not how loud it actually is. |
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>> For example, you can have audio that was normalized (0db) but doesn't |
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>> sound as loud as, say, -5db audio, but which has compressed dynamic range. |
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>> Normalization makes audio equally loud for hardware. ReplayGain makes |
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>> audio equally loud for humans. :-) |
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> Aarrrggghhh, I'm getting confused. More background on my original |
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> question. I work in a liquor store and the manager insists on playing the |
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> usual crappy FM radio station, "MORE HITS WHEN YOU WANT THEM AND WE HAVE THE |
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> BEST VARIETY......blah blah blah". I'm going crazy so I've loaded up a |
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> memory stick with music from my media machine and using a small Android |
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> tablet, play the music through the sound system instead of the radio. As you |
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> can guess this is not audiophile central, a cheap, quite old "3 in 1" sound |
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> system, one speaker one end of the shop, another in the middle of the shop. |
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> I can't do the turn up/turn down thingy as I might set the level when |
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> I start, and it may happen to be a quiet song. I then head down the other |
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> end of the shop, the track finishes and is then followed by a loud track, |
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> which is most likely excessively loud for a shop. Or conversely I start with |
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> a loud track, set the level and then it's followed by a quiet track and the |
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> shop goes quiet. |
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> I have no intention of applying whatever process to the media |
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> machine, the tracks on that remain as ripped. I only want to "fiddle" the |
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> tracks on the memory stick. As this is on an Android tablet, quite a cheap |
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> one at that, I'm also not sure how whizz bang the media player is so if I |
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> can get away with the tracks being as "standard" as possible would be good - |
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> my reading earlier on in this thread leads me to believe ReplayGain may not, |
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> although I'll prepared to test, be supported. |
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> So with that background, normalise or ReplayGain? |
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So long as the media player you're using supports it, I'm of the |
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opinion you should use ReplayGain over modifying the actual encoded |
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data. This way, you can take multiple passes without seriously risking |
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screwing stuff up. |
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