[vorbis] (Un)Usefulness of Vorbisgain?

Moritz Grimm gtgbr at gmx.net
Mon Jun 24 06:03:48 PDT 2002



David Tenser wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Moritz. Then I simply can't see a good reason for
> using this, unless you don't care about sound quality that much. Because
> Replay Gain will most of the time just lower the volume (and thus making
> the signal weaker) of the songs that are already compressed to sound as
> loud as possible.
> 
> Why would you want to loose signal/noise ratio?

Well, this should only matter to you if you have some *really* bad
soundcard. The s/n of the .ogg or .mp3 doesn't change, since the noise
gets lowered together with the music. The point is to have the same
percieved loudness over all replaygained songs.

<p>Moritz

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