James McDermott wrote: > 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 :) > Just out of interest how much processor power would it take to normalise on the fly? -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
