Re: [SLUG] MP3 gain

From: William Coulter (wrcoulter33@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 09 2008 - 15:56:43 EDT


I not sure you can do it without re-encoding them. I haven't done this in a
very, very long time but I did use Audacity to normalize the tracks when I
saved them again. That was the way I did it when I need to do it.

William

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:

> I've got an album whose tracks are in mp3 format. The gain for these
> tracks was set per track, so the gain for track x is different than the gain
> for track y. While this isn't particularly annoying, it is in this case
> because several tracks merge continuously into the next and it is rather
> annoying to have the loudness change abrubtly in the middle of a song.
>
> So, how can I renormalize these tracks as a set without re-encoding them? I
> have "mp3gain", but I can't make it DTRT. Both "-a" and "-r" leave sudden
> volume changes on some track transitions. Is it possible the original
> encoding software modified the actual data? Would that affect mp3gain?
>
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