[LAU] Level Matching

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:15:47PM +0000, Folderol wrote:

> What I've done is to store the originals, for possible future needs,
> and used this program on the copies. Because I'm using it to actually
> change the levels, and in this mode it does the translation my
> converting the files to wav format first, I've chosen the option to
> convert them all back to ogg, hopefully minimising any problems.

I was just going to ask: is it possible to modify an MP3
(without fully decoding/recoding it) in such I way that
only the level is changed ?

And second question (to Vorbis experts): does
Vorbis have a 'hard limit' on signal level in
the way a linear PCM file (e.g. plain 16-bit)
has ?

Ciao,

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FA

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