[vorbis] ogg-cdparanoia.py: small linux cd rip tool

Gian-Carlo Pascutto gcp at sjeng.org
Sat Feb 9 10:27:32 PST 2002



On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:

> The process is simple: for each track,
> cdparanoia is called to extract the audio to a temporary wav file. Sox
> is used on it to see if it   is normalized. If it is, oggenc is called on
> it to generate the apropiate .ogg version. If it isn't normalized, sox is
> called on it to   normalize it, and the output is fed directly to oggenc.

Just wanted to point out -> ReplayGain makes normalizing completely
unnecessary, and does so without any quality loss.

Moreover, it allows you to _retain_ volume differences between
tracks, if you want it to. Once you have normalized that
information is irreparably gone.


-- 
GCP

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