Hello. I have a problem here with replay gain. I use it to be able to hear all my music without any difference in volume. But it seems that all players I use ignore the gain value stored in my flac files. All flacs are louder than the gained mp3s I have. $ metaflac --show-tag=REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN <some>.flac REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN=-9.96 dB $ metaflac --show-tag=REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN <some>.flac REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN=-9.96 dB The flacs are always louder played as the mp3s and this happens with all players I have: mplayer, amarok (using either gestreamer or xine engine) and even with mpg123 and flac123. The mp3s are simply gained with mp3gain (http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net): $ mp3gain -r <some>.mp3 What can I do about that? Regards, Martin Wegner -- Get my public GPG key from pgp.mit.edu or wwwkeys.pgp.net Key ID: 0x44085D12 -- Homepage: http://mroot.net/ Powered by Gentoo Linux (http://gentoo.org/) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 892 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20060219/6b93ef20/signature.pgp
Hails! The reason this occurs is the default adjust value for mp3gain is stupid. I always do an mp3gain -g 6 to mine after other adjustments. Also with a player like XMMS that uses the FLAC plugin you can control the volume the flac play back at. HTH. You wrote:> Hello. > > I have a problem here with replay gain. I use it to be able to hear all > my music without any difference in volume. But it seems that all players > I use ignore the gain value stored in my flac files. All flacs are > louder than the gained mp3s I have. > > $ metaflac --show-tag=REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN <some>.flac > REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN=-9.96 dB > $ metaflac --show-tag=REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN <some>.flac > REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN=-9.96 dB > > The flacs are always louder played as the mp3s and this happens with all > players I have: mplayer, amarok (using either gestreamer or xine engine) > and even with mpg123 and flac123. > > The mp3s are simply gained with mp3gain (http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net): > > $ mp3gain -r <some>.mp3 > > What can I do about that? > > Regards, > > Martin Wegner >
Hello. CE wrote:> Hails! The reason this occurs is the default adjust value for > mp3gain is stupid. I always do an mp3gain -g 6 to mine after other > adjustments. Also with a player like XMMS that uses the FLAC plugin > you can control the volume the flac play back at.So what exact dB value does flac use? mp3gain + 6 dB are 95 dB IIRC. I tried to apply mp3gain -m 6 to my mp3s, I got this: WARNING: some clipping may occur with this gain change! with most mp3s. So this cannot be the best way ... Regards, Martin Wegner> > > [...]-- Get my public GPG key from pgp.mit.edu or wwwkeys.pgp.net Key ID: 0x44085D12 -- Homepage: http://mroot.net/ Powered by Gentoo Linux (http://gentoo.org/) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 892 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20060220/beac0286/signature.pgp