Re: keeping same perceived level on mp3 files

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On 10/06/2012 01:51 PM, Georg Holzmann wrote:

That's great - now you only have to bring all your files to the same
loudness!
For example, let's say you want all files to be at 13 LU.
You can apply a simple gain on all files:
-0.7 dB for the first file (13.7LU), 0dB for the second, +7dB for the
third (6LU) and so on ...

I think you can do that with sox - and maybe it's also good to use an
additional limiter (at -1dBFS or lower), to avoid clipping!
AFAIK sox has the compad effect, which can do that ...

Thanks for the help! That's great.

Now I started looking for an sox alternative that could do gain adjustment without having to decode/reencode the mp3, since I seemed to remember such a tool existed.

This led me to mp3gain. Reading it's man page:

"mp3gain can analyze and adjust mp3 files so that they have the same volume."

Hmmmm. Now I'm thinking, isn't this exactly what I wanted in the first place?

After running "mp3gain -r *.mp3" on the same files as I tested with in the original mail, and checking them with ebur128, it seems that the two programs do not agree how to measure the perceived loudness. mp3gain uses the replay gain algorithm, what ever that means. Any ideas whether mp3gains measurements should fare worse than ebur128?

The reason I ask is, that I'm tempted to just use "mp3gain -r *.mp3" :-)

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