On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:48:35AM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote: > > in short, it sounds like normalization is exactly what you want. > OK fair enough. so that means I can filter a .WAV through normalize before compression - with a little trial & error. any ripper recommendations? abcde looks good (I like the name too ;) but it doesn't seem to allow me to add this sort of filter. do I lose much quality if I mp3>wav>normalize>mp3 ? Thanks --