[LAU] Level Matching

[Folderol]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 08:28:51 +0000 (GMT)
Luigi Curzi <luigi_curzi at yahoo.it> wrote:

> --- Gio 6/11/08, Fons Adriaensen <fons at kokkinizita.net> ha scritto:
> 
> > Da: Fons Adriaensen <fons at kokkinizita.net>
> > Oggetto: Re: [LAU] Level Matching
> > A: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org
> > Data: Giovedì 6 novembre 2008, 00:48
> > 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 ?
> > 
> 
> with replaygain script (a frontend to replaygain, aacgain, mp3gain ecc ecc) in amarok, you can analyze an audio file and normalize it without re-encoding; "it will store the information in tags" (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=26073).
> 
> ciao
> Luigi

Yes. I was aware of that, but it is of no help when the files will be
played on a simple player, or a machine that doesn't have a program
like amarok

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk