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
"Ben Harvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 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

ripping quiet CDs

2001-06-09 Thread Ben Harvey
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 edi