Re: mp3gain (was: CDbakeOven issue(s))

From: John Eggert (finarfinjge_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/09/03 

Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:50:51 -0400

Henrik Herranen wrote:

> Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> writes:
>> I do have a nifty little script for burning "mix" CDs; you point it at
>> a directory full of MP3s, and it chooses a random subset, randomly
>> ordered, converts them to .wav files (using mpg123, by default),
>> normalizes them (using normalize), and burns them to a disk (using
>> cdrecord, by default). It's at
>> http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/systuff/burnMixCD
>
> Nothing to do with the original issue, but if your "normalize" is the
> very same basic program I tried last year, I'd recommend mp3gain over
> it any day. When I got my new computer I encoded all my 600 CDs to MP3s.
> Then I ran mp3gain in album mode, and now I can select a random list of
> some 5000 MP3 songs where all songs are at least somewhat similar in
> volume.
>
> The neat thing about mp3gain is that it does its gain control losslessly,
> in other words it rewrites the scaling factors for each mp3 frame, and
> this operation is perfectly reversible if you store the added/subtracted
> gain in a file.
>
> - Henrik
>
> --
> Blib

Hi Henrik:

Does this work with .wav files and .ogg? The package description seems to
imply only mp3, which limits it to about 10% of my collection.

JE

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