[vorbis] (Un)Usefulness of Vorbisgain?

[David Tenser]

Moritz Grimm wrote:
> 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.

I'm using a Sound Blaster Live 1024 card. Don't ask me if it's good or 
bad... Anyway, every decibel makes a difference. The soundcard is 
definitely the weak link in the sound chain, and if I have to turn the 
signal down even more with Reply Gain, I can might as well raise/lower 
the volume knob whenever a song is louder/quiteter than the others.

Besides, I always "master" the poor recordings before compressing them 
to ogg. (Using Cool Edit 96; a special disortion to remove peaks, 
normalize, noise reduction; the result is always better than the original)

I think it's a good thing that Replay Gain exists, and I'll add the tag 
info to my ogg files just in case, but personally, I'll probably never 
use it.

If someone could make a receiver that could get this replay gain data 
and adjust the volume from there instead, *that* would be something! But 
weakening the signal from the source is not an option, for me.

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