A little tip (and maybe a request for quality control?)

[Frode Petersen]

Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 21:59 +0200, Frode Petersen wrote:
>> I use Grip to rip my CD's and encode them to ogg files. Doing that, I 
>> could use vorbisgain to add tags according to the recorded level of
>> each song, directly in Grip. This makes all songs play at the same
>> level in i.e. XMMS. However, I want the tags calculated per album, so
>> that the dynamics is retained as the artist intended it to be, making
>> soft songs play soft and loud songs play loud.
> 
> How's that different from not playing with gain, and ripping/encoding
> them as they are?
> 

Well, albums have different overall levels, making some a lot louder 
than others (rock albums for instance.) Vorbisgain makes this difference 
  smaller, but retains the dynamic differences between the songs on an 
album if used in the correct mode.

The importance of this little feature is probably not great, as I have a 
volume control, ;-)  but it's there, it's relatively easy to use so why 
not?

Anyway, I thought this would be of interest for ogg users, but after 
posting it realised that it's probably off topic here, and maybe even 
not the best forum for this kind of info. Or?

Frode