[sclug] [Fwd: Make my mp3s louder]

[Simon Champion]

Hia.

I used to have the same issue with my MP3s when I used to listen to them while 
walking to work from the station.

These days I just listen on my PC using Amarok, which has a plug-in called 
ReplayGain which allows you to adjust all your tracks so they play at the 
same volume.

I haven't yet tried taking the adjusted tracks and putting them back on the 
mp3 player (I haven't needed to use it lately) but I'm not convinced it would 
work anyway -- I don't know whether the player would pay any attention to the 
adjusted volume settings for individual files. I suppose I should give it a 
try, though.


Regards,


   SimonC.

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On Tuesday 22 April 2008, John Stumbles wrote:
> Neil Haughton wrote:
> > The trouble is that a number of the CDs are noticably quieter than I
> > would like. I'm talking average level here, so it's not a dynamic
> > compression issue. My recently purchased remastered Roxy music albums
> > are a case in point.
>
> Dunno if this helps:
>
> The Problem
> ===========
> Not all CDs sound equally loud. The perceived loudness of mp3s is even
> more variable. Whilst different musical moods require that some tracks
> should sound louder than others, the loudness of a given CD has more to
> do with the year of issue or the whim of the producer than the intended
> emotional effect. If we add to this chaos the inconsistent quality of
> mp3 encoding, it's no wonder that a random play through your music
> collection can have you leaping for the volume control every other track.
>
> The solution
> ============
> There is a remarkably simple solution to this annoyance, and that is to
> store the required replay gain for each track within the track. This
> concept is called "MetaData" data about data. It's already possible to
> store the title, artist, and CD track number within an mp3 file using
> the ID3 standard. The later ID3v2 standard also incorporates the ability
> to store a track relative volume adjustment, which can be used to "fix"
> quiet or loud sounding mp3s.
> However, there is no consistent standard by which to define the
> appropriate replay gain which mp3 encoders and players agree on, and no
> automatic way to set the volume adjustment for each track until now.
> The Replay Gain proposal sets out a simple way of calculating and
> representing the ideal replay gain for every track and album. Read on to
> find out more, or see what's new.
>
> http://www.replaygain.org/
>
> See also man:lame
> --replaygain-fast
>   Compute ReplayGain fast but slightly inaccurately.
> ...
>   See also: --replaygain-accurate, --noreplaygain
> --replaygain-accurate
>   Compute ReplayGain more accurately and find the peak sample.
> ...