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Wanting to permanent aply RealplayGain by album to converted files
PaulTMA:
I want to convert from lossless Flac files, boosting the album's overall volume to the maximum level with no clipping. Strictly per album. understand that Volume Level is the method of going about this.
However, my finished files are even quieter than the ones I begin with. This seems to be the problem with every file I convert or disc I rip.
There must be some very basic error going on here. I have a lot of old albums on Flac or CD which have very small-looking waveforms and there is definitely headroom for a bit of a boost. I definitely don't want the waveforms getting even quieter.
I have gone to Audio Conversion Options and chosen Volume Levelling. I have not selected Adaptive Volume as I want to preserve the original audio, just boost each album without causing it to clip, and preserve the volume changes from song to song.
Can someone point out what simple thing I'm doing wrong? Thanks
PaulTMA:
I realise I mean D128 rather than Realplaygain. Not an expert here. Would really appreciate the help. Got a ton of older CDs and FLACs I want to make louder!
EnglishTiger:
Paul - where are you getting the "waveform" size information from.
If it is from the MC Playerbar - Ignore it - to get it fit in the small amount of space used to display it the data is "manipulated". A better indicator is the DSP Studio Analyzer Window.
I've got loads of older CD's which I ripped to Flac files without using any modification and by using a combination of DSP's "Volume Leveling" and "Adaptive Volume" I am able to play them at a Volume Level, without any distortion, that would have my Neighbours Begging Me to turn the volume down.
PaulTMA:
--- Quote from: EnglishTiger on June 10, 2022, 05:39:21 am ---Paul - where are you getting the "waveform" size information from.
If it is from the MC Playerbar - Ignore it - to get it fit in the small amount of space used to display it the data is "manipulated". A better indicator is the DSP Studio Analyzer Window.
I've got loads of older CD's which I ripped to Flac files without using any modification and by using a combination of DSP's "Volume Leveling" and "Adaptive Volume" I am able to play them at a Volume Level, without any distortion, that would have my Neighbours Begging Me to turn the volume down.
--- End quote ---
Audacity - the above waveform is the original CD rip - there's loads of headroom across the 20 track album for something of an overall volume boost. Just want to 'print' that to output that volume lift across the album with no changes to dynamics at all. Want to do the same thing to many albums.
The lower one is after conversion. It has definitely got quieter, not louder. I want these volume lifts printed onto the new files so I can use them outside of Media Center, as loud as possible per album. I am using the application solely for this purpose.
I'm now not noticing any volume lift whether I have Adaptive Volume on or not either. I thought I had it working a week or so ago, perhaps some setting that I'm aware of has been reset when I ran CleanMyMac? I don't know
EnglishTiger:
Paul - try to convert one of the albums again but this time tell it to convert it to 48 kHz 24 bit.
Since the CD is 16 bit the additional 16 bits from your conversion are being supplied by the conversion process not the source and that could be part of the reason for the drop in volume. Oh and make sure the conversion is not applying "Normalise Volume"
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