It should be done during the initial encoding process. There is plenty of audio editing software that will do that for you. Just do it BEFORE the lossy MP3 algorithm is applied. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Mendelsohn" <mend0070 at tc.umn.edu> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 10:43 AM Subject: RE: [TCLUG] normalizing MP3s > On Mon, 21 May 2001, Austad, Jay wrote: > > > Keep in mind that converting from MP3 -> WAV -> MP3 is going to dramatically > > reduce the quality of the resulting MP3. Essentially, you're encoding the > > audio file with lossy compression, and then compressing it again with lossy > > compression. You're probably going to hear some static or popping sounds in > > your resulting file. > > This is true. You are really not supposed to process anything after mp3, > period -- it's only designed as a final delivery format. But that's not > what I thought we were talking about. When the original poster > (Brian?) said he wanted to put the files on CD, I thought he meant > CD-Audio, not CD-ROM with mp3 files. Changing volume on decoded MP3 is a > hack, but recoding them is a No-No (unless you just don't care, or are > listening on the apron at the Air Nat'l Guard.) > > To be clear, if the question was how to change the volume of an encoded > file, no -- there's no way to do that. > > -- > "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >