[Flac] Burn flac to cd
Mark Rudholm
rudholm at hyperreal.org
Sun Sep 23 14:23:56 PDT 2007
Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
>> You don't. Audio CDs don't support ReplayGain tags. The only thing
>> you may do on Audio CDs is to use Volume Normalize techniques
>> available on certain programs. Normalization of sound is not a good,
>> clean thing, though.
>
> Surely it would be possible to have something apply the ReplayGain to
> the WAV after decoding and prior to writing them to CD... but I don't
> know of anything that does it.
>
> That could be a good feature request, but where would it belong? The
> FLAC decoding library could be enhanced to allow it to spit out
> adjusted WAVs, if requested. Something along these lines must already
> be done in order to have the FLACs play with ReplayGain.
IMO, it belongs somewhere between the CD and the speakers.
But since the red book didn't specify level normalizing
metadata (a la ReplayGain) I don't see a way to do it.
I don't think it belongs in the audio data on the CD.
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