On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Bob van der Poel <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've used the program "normalize-audio" a number of times to good > effect. > Folderol wrote: >> they >> are all recorded at completely different levels which make playing a >> program of them a bit problematical. >> >> Does anyone know of an automated way I can bring these all to a >> similar listening level. I see that there is a replaygain script for Amarok, though I haven't used it. If you can get it to work, replaygain is probably the best solution, since it doesn't change the data (as normalize-audio does, I believe) but rather sets an id3 (?) tag. Be warned though that there is no perfect solution, since different types of music are compressed differently. No matter what strategy one adopts, a classical piece will have quiet parts and loud parts, and whichever of these you try to match with the volume of a pop piece, the other will sound wrong. Then of course there's the tricky issue of whether to change the volume per-song or per-album... HTH :) jmmcd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
