Digital music volume problem.

[Matt Morgan]

Thanks! Sounds great.

While I totally, completely want a compressor limiter, I think that will 
have to wait. :-(

On 04/07/2004 02:17 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

>for xmms the volume normalizer plugin can help.
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>http://www.xmms.org/plugins.php?details=23
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>on the hardware side... I have a device called a compresser limiter that 
>does essentially the same thing, it's probably a little spendy for just 
>plonking between your sound output and your speakers on random pc's but 
>it's a useful tool for radio-stations, home-theater rigs, and some video 
>conferencing applications (what we got it for).
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>joelja
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>On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Matt Morgan wrote:
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>>The main reason I don't absolutely love digital music is the volume 
>>problem. I ripped everything to ogg vorbis with grip, and the volume of 
>>each song varies so widely that every third song I have to fix the 
>>volume. This is OK on my desktop but it's hard to imagine doing that 
>>with the laptop attached to my home audio system.
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>>How do people handle this? Is there ripping software that will look for 
>>the volume peaks and set the volume for each track so the highest peaks 
>>are the same? I realize that wouldn't be perfect--across different 
>>genres of music especially--but maybe there is some smarter way. I have 
>>also heard that doing this can damage the quality of the music, since it 
>>may tend to amplify ambient noise, but I sincerely doubt that would 
>>bother me as much as having to interrupt dinner to change the volume on 
>>the stereo. Apart from grip, I checked Rhythmbox (Sound Juicer?) briefly 
>>and it didn't seem to have any such setting either. But maybe I'm blind.
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>>The other way to handle it is in the player, I guess. I have an external 
>>USB SoundBlaster sound card that comes with some software that manages 
>>the volume from track to track, or so it claims. I kind of doubt it does 
>>this dynamically, but rather reads through the tracks and saves metadata 
>>in them that it then reads when playing. The software is Windows-only, 
>>I'm pretty sure, and I haven't tried it yet. Is there some Linux 
>>counterpart?
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>>Thanks a lot,
>>Matt
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