![]() I ran MP3Gain for nearly 48 hours constantly last year, and completely knackered the read/write arm of my HDD! But then, I was analysing and correcting gain on several thousand MP3s. But I'd rather I got to choose how loud or quiet (relatively) my MP3s were than have some retailer do it for me, then have to redo it all myself! I've used MP3Gain with great success, as echoed in the posts here. Imagine how much extra time - and, therefore, how much more they'd charge you for this - if they then had to use a program like MP3Gain to modify gain by track or album. So, when an online retailer rips/encodes CDs in readiness for resale, they're simply doing just that: ripping and encoding. The gain of any particular track or album is 'fixed', if you will, according to the way the engineers set it for any given CD. the maximise function is 'hidden' away (not sure why - it's the best feature) look for the checkbox under Options-Advanced.Īm I missing something here? Are we suggesting that MP3s (or other formats) are being deliberately sold without first having their gain 'corrected' to remove distortion? If so, then I'm not surprised. ![]() Now reset the gain using maximise and the 'crunch' goes away leaving a lovely meaty thump without distortion. Try picking a track you know has 'big bass' beats like a modern dance/rap track or a heavy metal track - listen for the bass beats going 'crunch-crunch' instead of 'thud-thud'. Generally, I use the 'maximise' function - it analyses the whole album checking each individual file for what the maximum gain setting can be without clipping (the clipping of waveforms due to excessive gain setting is what causes the distortion) and then can either adjust the individual tracks or can check what safe gain setting for the whole album can be used - I use the whole album maximise so that relative track volumes are maintained. ![]() 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. Bah! I made a big long rant and IE lost it let's rant again.
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