Mark Lanctot;133815 Wrote: 
> I've seen the same as well and I'm not entirely sure.
> 
> One possibility:
> 
> Many CDs these days are clipped at source.  Sad but true, take a look
> at one of these tracks in Audacity with the zoom turned way up.  If
> that's the case, no amount of volume reduction will ever eliminate
> clipping, the tops of the waveforms are gone forever.
Looking more closely I am fairly certain you are correct! mp3gain gui
has 3 clip related columns: "clipping", "clip track" and "clip album".
I reckon the clipping column merely shows that the original track was
clipped. This makes far more sense because then the louder tracks would
more likely have this field ticked which is the pattern i see.
Also, if set the level to 100dB and then analyse a file with a track
volume of say 83, then the "clip track" field is set which shows that
the track is clipped if normalised upward from 83 to 100.

I'm now a happy chappy I think and can continue happily with my
automated MAREO stuff.....

Cheers for all the input
Jimmy


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