cathcam wrote: > I just posted this over on the Audacity forums, I'd like to get an LMS > perspective. I read a long thread here on the LMS Smartgain feature, but > I pretty much don't use streaming music websites, only my own music. > > [*Background:* I'm on a kick to make digital copies of my entire vinyl > collection, about 2,700 albums. I've already done about 700 CD's. I've > almost exclusively used Audacity over the past 3-years and am still > working on it. I get as many 12 vinyl albums done per week, so it's > going to take a while :-) > > I keep the output from the process as VBR MP3, depending on the track, > is circa 250kbps. I'm doing this so I can play my entire collection on > random play by genre, year, artists etc. and create playlists of > favorites. The MP3 files are stored on a NAS, backed up by another NAS, > which is also backed up online. The music is streamed via a separate > Logitech Media Server(LMS).] > > *Problem:* I use a logitech media server to stream music to every room > in my house. The vinyl albums/tracks I've recorded don't play as loud as > the CD tracks I've ripped. I've read about the recording levels in > Audacity and pretty much follow the recommendations for levels. When I > play back random tracks the CD tracks are always just a bit louder, no > matter what type of music. > > There seems to be a couple of solutions to this. > > 1. Use audacity AMPLIFY effect at the end of the editing to boost an > album to as "loud" as possible. Easy enough on clean albums, but more > time consuming on "noisy" albums. However, this doesn't seem to still > get the "loudness". > > 2. Start using compression - all sorts of reasons I don't want to. Not > least it adds another layer of processing and issues. > > 3. Use the Squeezebox/LMS gain control to try to achieve a balanced > loudness. It's described here. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/A > ... Adjustment > > *Question:*Does Audacity set the gain volume adjustment metadata tags > from your audio files? > > Is there a good article that discusses the general issue of vinyl > loudness vs CD loudness, or how best to achieve a balance? > > Any recommendations? > > ++Mark. > website: https://ctproduced.com > discogs collection: https://www.discogs.com/user/4MC/collection
I would try replaygain first. You can use Foobar to add the tags. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slartibartfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35609 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111524 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
