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

[Pandu Poluan]

On May 21, 2012 9:18 PM, "Andrew Lowe" <agl@×××××××.au> wrote:
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[ze schnipp]

>        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.
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>        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.
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>        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.
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>        So with that background, normalise or ReplayGain?
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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

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.

Rgds,