[PLUG] Graphical audio normalization software

Chris Dawson xrdawson at gmail.com
Sun Feb 5 17:24:13 UTC 2006


It seems like you want something to automate normalizing a large
number of files, which would be hard to find in a GUI app.  One
command line option is mp3gain, detailed here:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/MP3-CD-Burning/

Chris

On 2/4/06, Aaron Ten Clay <aaron at madebyai.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to find an application which has a simple graphical interface to normalize audio ripped from CDs. I recently switched my family's computers to Linux and one of the things they like to do is rip commercial CDs and make their own compilations by mixing tracks from different discs.
>
> Unfortunately, it seems there's a wide range of volumes these discs come recorded at, and that's not always pleasant when listening to a mixed CD. They'd like some software to go through and normalize their music collections so all the tracks are the same volume.
>
> It needs to be fairly simple and hopefully have a graphical interface for them to use. It may not be practical to re-rip all the tracks they have with a ripper application that does the normalization, but if there's no alternative they will consider it.
>
> It'd be nice if this normalization software can directly open MP3 and FLAC files without having to manually convert them to WAV, then reencode after normalization.
>
> So far I've looked at normalize, which is a CLI app, and KWave, an audio editor that's far more sophisticated than they'd like to use.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated!
>
> -Aaron
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