I was curious if any of you manipulate gain parameters to keep loudness levels even across your music library, or not, and just live with stuff the way it is.
Personally, I leave classical music alone. Most of it I have ripped with dbPoweramp[1], and leave it alone. With jazz, I could live with leaving it alone, but I have played around with MP3Gain and some other tools to manage levels across playlists. With popular music like R&B and salsa - it wouldn't be much of a problem if you acquired the CDs in the same decade they were produced, I think. But start mixing things up, and playlists become very uneven[2]. Hence I have used MP3Gain on an album by album basis, although my library (wihich is very large) is quite inconsistent. So I wonder if anyone uses a tool that evens out levels library-wide? How do you handle it? Just curious. ...paul [1] It seems to me that dbPoweramp has upped its output levels with new versions. I have re-ripped some albums, and upon comparing my first rip with the most recent one, there seems to be a loudness increase. I have not dabbled with the advanced DSP parameters in dbPoweramp ever, which I think allow for some output level settings. [2] The particular culprit is: you have a few CDs from a certain artist you bought back in the 80s. Now you discover that Amazon has re-issued some albums from that artist that you missed. You buy them as an MP3 album. The loudness difference between these new ones and the original CD rips will be brutal. That said, Amazon has done a great job of digitizing some hard to find 80s/90s albums. In some cases, they sound (IMHO) markedly better than the original release ADD/DDD CDs, because some of them sounded ugh (and prolly gave digital a bad name), but yeah, the current heavy handed approach to loudness prevails. Hence... how to best manage? ...pablo Server: Virtual Machine (on VMware Workstation 12) running Ubuntu 16.04 + LMS 7.9 System: SB Touch --optical->- Benchmark DAC2HGC --AnalysisPlus Oval Copper XLR->- NAD M22 Power Amp --AnalysisPlus Black Mesh Oval->- Totem Element Fire Other Rooms: 2x SB Boom; 1x SB Radio; 1x SB Classic-> NAD D7050 -> Totem DreamCatcher + Velodyne Minivee Sub Computer audio: workstation --USB->- audioengine D1 -> Grado PS500e/Shure 1540 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106423 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
