can someone pls explain the function of vorbisgain? is it recommended? if so then what setting should i use?

thanks!

QUOTE from README from VorbisGain Source:

When listening to Ogg Vorbis files on your computer, you may have noticed that some songs are louder than others. To a degree, this can be what the artist or producer intended, at least when comparing songs from the same CD. However, when (randomly) listening to songs from different CDs, the sound level can vary quite much, so much that you need to adjust the volume every now and then, to get a comfortable sound level. Wouldn't it be nice if that could be handled automatically?

This is where VorbisGain comes in. It calculates a percieved sound level of an Ogg Vorbis file using the ReplayGain algorithm. VorbisGain then stores in the comments (tags) in the file a suggestion on how the volume should be changed during playback, to get a uniform sound level.

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Personally, I would recommend it. It needs to activated in the player to become effective, so if you are not pleased with the result, you don't have to use it!!

There are basically two options: Album Gain and Track Gain. As it suggests, Album Gain calculates a value to preserve the relative sound level between tracks across the Album, Track gain simply applies the value to each Track in isolation.

hey thanks for info!!

just one more Q, is there a frontend for vorbisgain?

You can use WinVorbis (http://winvorbis.stationplaylist.com/).

Stein