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Normalizing OggVorbis-files for portable

Hello,
I have a Iriver iMP-550. Untill now I want to use vorbis as codec.
Is there a way to normalize the volume of the files without (or very little) quality loss before/while or after ripping from the CD?

Thanx a lot
Big_Berny

Normalizing OggVorbis-files for portable

Reply #1 –
I don't think iRiver supports VorbisGain... so your best bet is to rip the WAVs, change the WAVs with WaveGain, and then encode the resulting WAVs into Ogg Vorbis.

Normalizing OggVorbis-files for portable

Reply #2 –
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I don't think iRiver supports VorbisGain... so your best bet is to rip the WAVs, change the WAVs with WaveGain, and then encode the resulting WAVs into Ogg Vorbis.

Thanx!
What is the fastest way to do that? Is there a program which can do that automatically? What about the normalize-funciton of CDex or EAC?

Greetz
Big_Berny

Normalizing OggVorbis-files for portable

Reply #4 –
edit: too slow!

(I think) what you want to do is apply replaygain to the files.  Your basic goal is for all the tracks so have about the same loudness, right?

If so, you don't want to normalize your files for a number of reasons.  See the first FAQ question here for more details on why.

What you want to do is rip the files to .wav, then use Wavegain to make all the wavs the same average level.  You can apply "radio gain" which makes all tracks the same average volume, or "album gain" which makes groups of tracks (ie, an album) have the same average volume.

Then you can encode the .wav's to Vorbis.

Read around the replaygain site to learn more, or search the forum for replaygain and/or wavegain.

Normalizing OggVorbis-files for portable

Reply #5 –
The firmware you use is beta. And it is a bug that Oggs sound quieter. I hope iRiver fix that. So wait for stable firmware.
Ogg Vorbis for music and speech [q-2.0 - q6.0]
FLAC for recordings to be edited
Speex for speech
 

Normalizing OggVorbis-files for portable

Reply #6 –
What I do is rip all my cds to FLAC.  Then I use foobar2000 to calculate album replaygain for all my rips.  Then I use oggdropXPd and select the option to "Use FLAC ALBUM Gain Tag to set Scale Factor automatically."

You have to have a lot of hard drive space to do this though (to save all the FLAC rips), but what is nice is that oggdropXPd retains your tagging and naming structure, once you set it up.
WARNING:  Changing of advanced parameters might degrade sound quality.  Modify them only if you are expirienced in audio compression!