How To Use Mp3 Gain ?, 3 guides - normalization - maximizing Options

[user]

Last update:
2004-08-16


Thanks to westgroveg, we have a brief summary of today's possibilities:

This thread is always coming backup so here a few extra hints for users

• Album analyses  calculates track/album values so performing an album analyses is all you need to do.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• MP3Gain now supports writing changes to ID3 tag so it is 100% lossless, ie. completely reversible.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• As of LAME 3.96 (track) replaygain values are automatically written to the lame tag,
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Unlike MP3Gain, values stored in the lame tag need to be applied during playback which requires more CPU processing & the decoder to be aware.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Foobar can automatically scan & adjust replaygain values without any need for MP3Gain but of course some of us don’t like this audio player.
  
  
  
  
  
• One more thing, make sure, you tag before using replaygain or instead of your replaygain values being hidden they appear in the comment field for some reason which can be annoying.

This post has been edited by user: Aug 20 2004, 11:33

[Agitator]

Hi, I have some questions regarding MP3Gain.

Let's say I rip a CD with EAC, encode it with LAME, and then use MP3Gain to adjust it.

As an alternative, I'd rip the CD with EAC, use MP3Gain (or something similar, if MP3Gain doesn't support WAV), and then encode it with LAME.

Would there be any differences between the resulting MP3s?


/Agitator