MuckleEck;318673 Wrote: 
> Or use replay gain to "normalise" the levels

That won't help in the battle of the loudness wars. The loudness war is
played by increasing the average volume of music throughout the track.

Replay gain can only help with equalizing the peak volume levels of
tracks, it is used to turn the whole track up my a fixed amount of
volume. If you have a track with a decent range of volume levels across
it then even when "replay gained" it will still sound less loud than a
track that has fallen victim to the loudness wars.

The only other way of addressing the issue is to use a dynamic volume
adjustment, that looks ahead in the audio and turns the volume up or
down on the fly. There is such an option on the empeg in car MP3
player. It deals quite well with matching volumes, but it has
definitely downsides as it can very occasionally lead to clearly
audible artefacts on some tracks (the volume pumps up and down
rhythmically). It works quite well for in car listening, but I wouldn't
want to use such a system at home.


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