[sclug] [Fwd: Make my mp3s louder]

[Mayuresh Kadu]

I have been playing around with ReplayGain. The key fact is that your player
has to support it. The gain calculator utility simply writes the figures to
the metadat (or ID ? tags). I am not even sure if my ipod supports it.

I believe it's turned off by default in Winamp 5 (General Preferences >
Playback > Replay Gain)

- Mayuresh

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Simon Champion <simon at spudley.com> wrote:

> 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.
> > ...
>
>
>


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