Hi Andrew!
If you want control over the dithering best use Fons' resample for both
bitdepth and samplerate conversion. If not, I think sndfile-convert should be
fine.
For normalising, sorry I forgot that: I always use ecanormalize from the
ecatools (Ecasound). I guess your mentioned tool should work as good as that.
Kindly yours
Julien
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