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From: Willie Matthews <matthews.willie@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 12:36:34
Message-Id: 4FB792C3.5000606@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume by Pandu Poluan
1 Nice! I will have to go and try that one soon.
2
3 On 05/19/12 05:22, Pandu Poluan wrote:
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5 >
6 > On May 19, 2012 7:00 PM, "Andrew Lowe" <agl@×××××××.au
7 > <mailto:agl@×××××××.au>> wrote:
8 > >
9 > > Hi all,
10 > > Is there a way to change the "volume" of a mp3/vorbis track?
11 > By volume, I'm referring to lining up several tracks on your
12 > computer/phone/tablet/thingy, setting the one volume level and then
13 > letting them play. For example, the first track will be quiet, of all
14 > ironies my Led Zeppelin tracks are all like this, the next track will
15 > be loud, the next track "in the middle", in other words it's
16 > Goldilocks and the three bears with audio tracks.
17 > >
18 > > Is there a way I can either during the ripping process, or
19 > subsequently in a post-processing, make the "average" volume of all my
20 > tracks the same?
21 > >
22 > > Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
23 > >
24 >
25 > What you're looking for is called "replay gain" (alternative spelling,
26 > "replaygain"). Basically, it's a two-step process : (1) analyze the
27 > 'effective loudness' of a track, and (2) add a tag indicating the
28 > difference between the measured 'effective loudness' with a reference
29 > level of 89 dB SPL
30 >
31 > http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=ReplayGain
32 >
33 > The above wiki article might be out of date with regards to the
34 > available software. Try asking around in the HydrogenAudio forums.
35 > They are a bunch of friendly guys ;-)
36 >
37 > (PS: my handle there is "pepoluan", although honestly I haven't
38 > dabbled in any forum discussions for several years.)
39 >
40 > Rgds,
41 >
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45 Willie Matthews
46 matthews.willie@×××××.com