Hi,

On Saturday 23 February 2008, Chris Carr wrote:
> If I call mp3gain once for each album, how will it be able to
> normalise the replay gain of different albums? Does it have some
> hard-coded target volume to which it will normalise them? Am I
> supposed to provide such a target somewhere?

Yes, it has a target volume. You can modify it with -m or -d, but then 
you have to use the same option always. I use -m 2 because I consider 
the default a bit too quiet.

> I thought it looked up the album name in the ID3 tag and therefore
> knew which track was on which album, but that's clearly not the
> case.

No, but it would probably be possible to write a wrapper script that 
does that. It's a lot easier if you have each album in its own 
directory. Then you just have to call it once per directory.

> Let's just consider two albums, A and B. I call mp3gain for all the
> tracks on album A. It makes the same adjustment to all the tracks.
> On what does it base this adjustment?

The adjustment is so that the average volume of the tracks matches the 
target volume.

Hope this helps.

Stefan



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