Gah! Let's storm the EMI offices! Who's with me?!?!Ĭlick to expand.Eek! That's making files potentially loads worse! I'm real surprised you haven't noticed lots of distortion - maybe your player software compensates (Im aware that some can and does). I haven't been so angry since 'they' started intentionally mangling CD files to stop 'mobster pirates' from using PCs to dupe music (i.e. paying to gag folks so they can perpetuate the CD-is-better-than-MP3 to eak out the last of the market while they belatedly gear up to bleed the MP3 market? I just don't understand why noone has sorted this out already? Is there a conspiracy? Is EMI, Sony, etc. Tell me if I'm misunderstanding something, but it seems like something that should be an industry wide shame! Sure, I'll bet a lot of people don't notice, but that's no excuse! ![]() selling sub-standard rippers without someone in the know saying, "hey, hold on! If you don't adjust the gain on some of these, they sound crap!" selling sub-standard files and how are MS etc. What I want to know is, how are 'they' getting away with it?! How are iTunes, etc. So here I am with tracks I thought were just badly produced or encoded now sounding lovely and am I happy? Well, yes, but I'm also MAD! I might never have known about it and I'm sure that the majority of people won't ever, but will just keep on putting up with the bass on their new Hed Kandi iTunes download sounding like their speakers are damaged. So, to cut a long story medium-sized, I discovered the whole gain issue and the MP3Gain software and spent days and days of effort converting all my WMAs to MP3 and then adjusting them all for gain problems. Noticing it a LOT in the last few months (having got some real good headphones and a nice player) I made a concerted effort to research the issue. I think we've all noticed tracks and sometimes whole albums that had nasty distortion at high volumes. I've used various MP3/WMA software and hardware products over the years but had never worked out an issue I had noticed more and more until recently. This may not be news to a lot of informed folks here, but I only recently discovered MP3Gain and am still in shock. They won't alter the audio.Bah! I made a big long rant and IE lost it let's rant again. You *are* only writing the tags, right? You're not actually altering the audio? Don't do that with SlimServer, because if you do and also have Volume Adjustment enabled, you'll get a double adjustment, which will impact sound quality for sure. It's easy to compare, just enable/disable Volume Adjustment/ReplayGain in Player Settings - Audio. It should be like decreasing the SB/Transporter volume down from 100%. With digital files I believe you will lose some signal-to-noise ratio since you are dropping bits. ![]() Some have noted that the ReplayGain mechanisms seem to degrade the sound. So I would rather use MP3gain ony if absolutely necessary to level the sound across a CD. I tried to listen to the same song before and after applying a correcton of -3dB and I can hear difference in the sound beside the changed level. I am just trying to figure out if real "audiophiles" use MP3gain on their files, or not.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |