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I have been quite surprised at how many of those I am finding across many genres. I know that is not correcting anything in the recorded wave forms, just reducing the overall amplification of each track. 90% seems to correlate fairly well with the -1 dB setting in Audacity. In reality, the overall level probably needs to be reduced to about 80% on those, but I just cannot bring myself to go that far, since I want to leave the EAC settings to work well with any disc without having to change it each time. I have found quite a few albums where the recording level was set considerably below the max (but apparently fairly compressed anyway, without many high peaks), and normalization is producing noticeable gains in the overall loudness for those.Īnd for the really hot CDs, normalizing them to 90% on re-rip puts their loudness more in line with the majority of other music. Yes, I do understand the difference between peak levels and perceived loudness, but this effort is producing some good results nonetheless. There is WaveGain and MP3Gain which "permanently" adjust the loudness of the file so the player doesn't have to do anything special. It's probably over-compressed and over-limited in all kinds of terrible ways!Īs you probably know, normalizing won't fix that because normalizing uses the peak levels and "loudness" does not correlate well with peaks. And if it's a commercial CD (as it was in my case) it's probably not simple-clean digital clipping. * Audacity has a Clip Fix effect but when I tried it a couple of times it just made the waveform look better with no noticeable effect on the sound. But it's a little trickier because you have to choose the "correct" target loudness and "manually" check/adjust for clipping. Or you can use Audacity's Loudness Normalization to match/adjust loudness. So now I am re-ripping those offending CDs, using Exact Audio Copy and automatic normalization,As you probably know, normalizing won't fix that because normalizing uses the peak levels and "loudness" does not correlate well with peaks. Unfortunately, the car system does not use Replay Gain tags, so I have been noticing the big volume differences between some of my albums. So this is not really a big deal for most types of music, but I was wondering if other folks are having this same internal debate? And what should I be doing to avoid those really hot CDs if I do not want to normalize by track? I have always chosen to normalize the entire album together for digitized LPs and tapes, even though I realize it makes no difference at all if I only play specific tracks. So now I am re-ripping those offending CDs, using Exact Audio Copy and automatic normalization, but I am a little bugged that the normalization is applied individually by track, with no option to preserve original track levels where the artist may have really wanted that contrast between tracks. This really surprises me since they are ripped CDs where I have no control of the recording gain, and I never expected a commercial CD to clip. Sometimes it is just a peak here or there, and for other CDs, the entire track is filling the display with almost more red than blue. One thing that has surprised me is that a fair number of my CDs stored in my computer library show a lot of clipping lines in Audacity.
The caused me to start looking at many of them with Audacity, since the initial wave display is an instant indication of peak and average levels.
I recently got a new car that plays music very nicely form a USB stick, so I have been playing around with that a lot. I ripped all my CD library many years ago, mostly just using Windows Media Player. And there is another somewhat-related Audacity issue that I have just started seeing. This is not really a specific Audacity issue, but I have a constant internal (to my own head) debate on this issue.
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