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

[Ian Malone]

Ian Malone wrote:
> Frode Petersen wrote:

>>> On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 21:59 +0200, Frode Petersen wrote:

>>>> 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.
>>>


> 
>> 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?
>>
> 
> Typically I run $ vorbisgain -sraf /<yourmusicdirectoryhere>
> r = recursive
> s = silently ignore non-Vorbis (such as playlists)
> 

Caveat: this assumes the files for each album occupy their own
directory.  Typically I will put the files for multi-disc
albums in the same directory, but there's no reason for these
to have been mastered to significantly different overall levels.