On Thursday 16 December 2004 9:58 pm, Michael A. Peters wrote: > For listening, I have a shell script that reads the tag info, > uncompresses to wav, and uses lame with --preset-standard and all my > tag information to output nice tagged mp3's. Hi, Why don't you use grip? It will rip the tracks and encode them to mp3 if you wish (tagging them with info obtained manually or thru the freedb). > I know xmms has a normalize plugin, and there may be a gstreamer- > plugins way as well, but I'd like to normalize at the encoding step if > possible so that I don't need to normalize music at the playing step. Take a look at "normalize". I'm not sure if it comes with Fedora but that's what you need. I think it only works with wav files though. Jorge