[LAU] Gain and clipping wav -> lame

[Philipp Überbacher]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:25:31 +0000
Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 07:50:44PM -0400, Marc Lavallée wrote:
>  
> > I'm sure it's been answered many times, but here's my question:
> > For loudness evaluation, how's EBU R128 "better" than ReplayGain?
> > (Or why use EBU R128 instead of ReplayGain?)
> > (A link to the suitable InterWeb resource would be appropriate)
> 
> http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=ReplayGain_1.0_specification
> http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=ReplayGain_2.0_specification
> 
> The proposed RG2 spec uses the same algorithm as R-128.
> 
> Ciao,
> 

One of the first things I thought when I saw the R-128 talk was" Could
this be used for a better replaygain?". Very nice to see that such an
effort is underway.

Now the obvious question is: Will this work better than the old replay
gain, and by how much? Has anyone done tests?

Regards,
Philipp