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| conquistador Deactivated User Hellhamster. 2947 Posts 10/03 |  Posted - May 9 2008 : 3:50PMI have a few albums on mp3 that play fine when I am at my computer but just are not loud enough to sound good on my mp3 player. I want to know if there is any way to add a bit of "gain" to a group of mp3s which sound too quiet. I should add that the mp3s are the only thing I have to work with as the 2 BoltThrower discs I want to hear have become damaged over the years. No chance to rip them again. Edited by - conquistador on May 9 2008  [Link] |
| Milo Member M'enfin! 85 Posts 10/06 | Posted - May 9 2008 : 5:14PM From Wikipedia:MP3Gain Homepage: Click! Added:Have you tried to rip the damaged discs using Exact Audio Copy? It's an excellent freeware known for its ability to rip severely damaged audio Compact Discs. It has been very useful for me several times... Edited by - Milo on 5/9/2008 5:23:43 PM  [Link] |
| conquistador Deactivated User Hellhamster. 2947 Posts 10/03 | Posted - May 9 2008 : 5:26PM [Link] |
| Milo Member M'enfin! 85 Posts 10/06 | Posted - May 9 2008 : 7:13PM [Link] |
| ChodeMasterJ Perpetual Marxist 5405 Posts 4/03 | Posted - May 9 2008 : 10:36PM [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - May 10 2008 : 12:47AM Edited by - randomprecision on 5/10/2008 12:48:02 AM [Link] |
| licker Senior Member Heretic, Iconoclast, Skeptic 1141 Posts 8/03 | Posted - May 10 2008 : 1:01AM Don't push it too far or you will get clipping on the loud parts. [Link] |
| Dave_K99 Member 497 Posts 12/07 | Posted - May 10 2008 : 6:46AM One great thing about EAC is that there are utilities around to configure and automate the ripping process. I use REACT, and basically just have to pop in the disc and hit one key to get it to securely rip a CD, create both a FLAC image and split MP3s (in different directories), apply ReplayGain tags, create a cuesheet, download album art, and embed the cuesheet, art and EAC log in the FLAC image. This has saved me a lot more time that it took to set up. As for not noticing a difference, I think glitches due to bad ripping are one of the most obvious defects you can get. Scratched/dirty CDs ripped without decent error correction will usually have problems that are easy to hear even on laptop speakers. A secure rip using EAC gives you peace of mind; you aren't going to notice problems later and have to dig out the CD and repeat the process. [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - May 10 2008 : 10:23PM At 320 (MP3), the only thing that would really be better is lossless (And my player can't read any of the lossless formats without Rockbox). I know I take a small hit using MP3 but the best headphones I have at the moment are Sennheiser HD497s and my sound card is a cheap Soundblaster. I've been relatively pleased with 320 MP3. I use FLAC for my absolute favorite stuff. But I still prefer the simplicity of something like CDex. The only CD I have that has serious errors on it is Metallica's And Justice For All. And I hardly listen to that. Honestly. I'm pretty picky about sound quality and I don't notice a difference between 320 and FLAC with my equipment. If I had better stuff, maybe I would. [Link] |
| Dave_K99 Member 497 Posts 12/07 | Posted - May 11 2008 : 7:09AM At the moment I automatically create normalised LAME -V4 MP3s for portable use when I rip. If I bought an MP3 player with more than 4Gb memory then I'd probably want higher quality, maybe if I bought an iPod I'd want everything in AAC. It's nice to have the FLAC files handy for mass transcoding, just set it running overnight and I'd have a copy of my music in a different format by morning. At the moment my whole collection still fits comfortably on a single 750Gb drive, with storage so cheap there isn't much of a disadvantage to using lossless. [Link] |
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