well, one thing you can do is email the oggenc author at msmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and request a normalize feature be put into oggenc, you may be plesantly surprised when your suggestions are added somewhat quickly. and alot of your problems are because of the mastering of the cd. and you have to remember that the version of rhythmbox on fedora core 1 signifigantly lags behind the latest release. -d ----- Original Message ----- From: Matt Morgan <matt.morgan-fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 14:05:11 -0400 To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Digital music volume problem. > 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. > > 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. > > 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? > > Thanks a lot, > Matt > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods. +( duncan brown +( duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxx +( http://www.linuxadvocate.net
