cathcam wrote: > MP3 vs FLAC. > > First off, I could export FLAC plus almost any other format from > Audacity. I'm doing the whole process for convenience and portability. > > In many of my rooms, cars, mobile players, my wife and I did a test and > we couldn't hear the difference between MP3 and FLAC. Not every player I > have supports FLAC. I have a 2013 Merc CLS550 that won't play them, and > I can plug in a 1Tb USB Hard drive with MP3. To be fair, do you really > think carefully produced MP3, or a FLAC file would sound any different > on a Boom, Radio, or much anything except a Transporter, which I have in > my living room. Even there, my wife and I struggled to hear the > difference. > > Second, the first step of the macro I use on Audacity, post recording, > saves the recording as a WAV file. I've had to go back to a few and > rework them. > > I tried VinylStudio when I first started, and you are right, it was > complex. That said, Audacity isn't that easy. I'll give Vinylstudio > another go. Wavecorrector has also been recommended. > > You can hear a sample of what I've done hear, butchered by youtube > transmission, also same website has mixcloud mixes. > https://www.ctproduced.com/baddest-grover-washington-jr/ > > Of course, none of this helps with the original question equalization > across tracks from different sources.
Replaygain will work with SB Players if you set them up to handle it but as you are talking other players then Id look at VinylStudios normalisation option. It lifts the volume permanently as opposed to Replaygain which is tags in the files that a clever player can read and interpret. The point made about FLAC over mp3 is that some of us can tell the difference even on what might be considered low end kit and if you have FLACs you can easily convert to mp3 if you wish but you cant do it the other way round. Ive digitised close to 1,000 vinyl albums. I stupidly started off with 320kbps mp3. I am now redoing those early ones to FLAC. dbPoweramp Reference edition is an excellent CD Ripper and also includes a powerful audio file converter. VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320 -> Celestion F10s / Pi2+DAC & SB3 -> Onkyo CRN755 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room* -> SB Boom *Kitchen* -> UE Radio (upgraded to SB Radio) *Bedroom (Bedside)* - Pi2+DAC ->ToppingTP21 ->AKG Headphones *Bedroom (TV)* - SB Touch ->Sherwood AVR ->Mordaunt Short M10s Everything controlled by iPeng ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d6jg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44051 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111524
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