[vorbis] (Un)Usefulness of Vorbisgain?

[David Tenser]

I fail to see how this was a reply to my original post...?

Erik Stenborg wrote:
> I will quote Frank Klemm:
> 
> Overload is a problem of all gadgets which do audio processing.
> These are lossy codec and also the processing inside ever D/A converter.
> 
> Download http://www.uni-jena.de/~pfk/mpp/audio2/overloadtest.zip
> unpack it and
> 
> listen to the WAV directly
> encode it with mppenc and listen with "mppdec"
> ... listen with "mppdec --scale 0.5"
> 
> end quote
> 
> Try to play this file at full scale and then halve the volume with some
> audio editor (CEP or whatever) and listen again.
> 
> /Erik
> 
> 
>>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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