Re: ripping quiet CDs

2001-06-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 03:08:05PM +0800, Ben Harvey wrote: > 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 - wit

Re: ripping quiet CDs

2001-06-09 Thread Erik Steffl
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:26:15AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > I like grip. > > > > not sure about abcde nut in grip you can set the wav filter, I guess > > that's what you want. but even if it's not you can simply set-up the > > ripper to be a shell scrip

Re: ripping quiet CDs

2001-06-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:26:15AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > I like grip. > > not sure about abcde nut in grip you can set the wav filter, I guess > that's what you want. but even if it's not you can simply set-up the > ripper to be a shell script that does rip+normalize instead of just r

Re: ripping quiet CDs

2001-06-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Ben Harvey wrote: > > 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 rec

Re: ripping quiet CDs

2001-06-09 Thread Robert Voigt
On Saturday 09 June 2001 09:08, Ben Harvey wrote: > do I lose much quality if I mp3>wav>normalize>mp3 ? Depends on the bitrate and encoder quality of the first encoding. You lose quality by reencoding alone, and if you normalize it before reencoding you theoretically lose a little more quality.

Re: ripping quiet CDs

2001-06-09 Thread Ben Harvey
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

Re: ripping quiet CDs

2001-06-09 Thread Jason Pepas
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 myster