Re: ripping quiet CDs
it sounds like you dont quite understand "normalize"
I think what you say you dont want to do is "compression". Not data
compression, but audio compression. If you have ever listened to your
favorite song on the radio, and you expect to hear a quite part and then
a loud part, but the song mysteriously remains at a constant volume the
entire time over the radio, then you are familiar with audio
compression.
normalizing, on the other hand, does not just amplify the quite parts to
bring them to the same level as the loud parts. Rather, it amplifies
everything by an equal amount. It takes the loudest part of the song
and amplifies it as much as possible without clipping, and then
amplifies the rest of the song by the same amount.
in short, it sounds like normalization is exactly what you want.
jason
jason@pepas.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Harvey" <benharvey@vianet.net.au>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 12:23 AM
Subject: ripping quiet CDs
> Hello
> I just set up abcde/cdparanoia/lame to rip some CDs, the problem is
that some
> of them turn out with very low volume.
> what can I do about this?
> I certainly don't want to use normalize: I want to increase the volume
> uniformly across a whole cd, not just the quiet parts.
> Are there any mp3 editing tools that would let me change frame headers
> (global_gain?) or would this cause clipping when I play them? This is
what
> happened when I cranked up the --scale option for lame.
> or is this approach fundamentally wrong.
> help!
>
> I am using:
> abcde v1.9.9
> cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
> LAME version 3.87 (beta 1, Jun 8 2001)
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