Eben King wrote:
> I've got an album whose tracks are in mp3 format. The gain for these
> tracks was set per track, so the gain for track x is different than
> the gain for track y. While this isn't particularly annoying, it is in
> this case because several tracks merge continuously into the next and
> it is rather annoying to have the loudness change abrubtly in the
> middle of a song.
>
> So, how can I renormalize these tracks as a set without re-encoding
> them? I have "mp3gain", but I can't make it DTRT. Both "-a" and "-r"
> leave sudden volume changes on some track transitions. Is it possible
> the original encoding software modified the actual data? Would that
> affect mp3gain?
>
Could it be that the software that you are using to play-back the MP3s
does not honor the MP3Gain flag that is in the MP3 files? The player
software must contain code to find that tag, and honor it.
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