Mp3gain
Mp3gain Posted on: 30.03.2013 by Contessa Mullholand Hi...To anyone who works with Mp3gain....what, from your experience, is the optimal Target Volume to set my music files to? I work with traktor and i guess the best volume should the one closest to 0 db. shown in Traktor... In other words, what volume should my music files be in order for me to play them on Traktor with the LEAST POSSIBLE gain changes done to the tracks in real time... Thanks! | |
| Latoria Kavulich 30.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by dreamdrums
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| Nicky Waddill 30.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by SlvrDragon50
If you did not notice a difference in your songs after running them through mp3gain, you did something wrong or used a very old version of mp3gain.
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| Nicky Waddill 30.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by Jester
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| Contessa Mullholand 29.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by Patch
As for the "clipping" part...can you shed some light? it's been quite confusing for me... I know it has something to do with disturbing sounds when playing the file....and if that is the case...how come ean & jester don't mind it? Thank you! |
| Latoria Kavulich 29.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by SlvrDragon50
ean=96 jester=94 turn autogain off turn ears on |
| Nicky Waddill 29.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by SlvrDragon50
i mean, i see two explanations for your claim. one, you were affected by one or more autogain bugs in the past and have bad autogain values. two, you are imagining this. of course, there's a third possibility, namely that mp3gain is actually better. but in light of the facts i presented above (particularly, the 1.5db step size of mp3gain), i consider that extremely unlikely. |
| Contessa Mullholand 30.03.2013 | Hi... To anyone who works with Mp3gain....what, from your experience, is the optimal Target Volume to set my music files to? I work with traktor and i guess the best volume should the one closest to 0 db. shown in Traktor... In other words, what volume should my music files be in order for me to play them on Traktor with the LEAST POSSIBLE gain changes done to the tracks in real time... Thanks! |
| Latoria Kavulich 30.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by dreamdrums
closed |
| Nicky Waddill 30.03.2013 | i'm sure soon enough, someone is gonna post an exceptionally witty "u mad?" pic and this thread is gonna die. but believe about it. is this the level of discussion you wanna have on DJTT? tylenol is better than local drugstore-chain branded acetaminophen. because ean says so! because it works for me and others! |
| Nicky Waddill 30.03.2013 | it's funny how people make an argument for mp3gain. it doesn't make any sense. traktor developers had the same algorithm at their disposal, but could implement a loudness-matching mechanism without the significant restriction of 1.5dB steps. some people believe they're doing something right just because they're tinkering more. well, in this case, they're not. ITT, there has been no argument of substance whatsoever in favor of mp3gain. |
| Nicky Waddill 30.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by SlvrDragon50
If you did not notice a difference in your songs after running them through mp3gain, you did something wrong or used a very old version of mp3gain.
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| Nicky Waddill 30.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by Jester
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| Contessa Mullholand 29.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by Patch
As for the "clipping" part...can you shed some light? it's been quite confusing for me... I know it has something to do with disturbing sounds when playing the file....and if that is the case...how come ean & jester don't mind it? Thank you! |
| Brunilda Kora 29.03.2013 | I've said it before - I use MP3Gain and set everything to 89. More tracks clip using anything higher than 89 (for me). You can always pump it up at the mixer/amp stage... |
| Latoria Kavulich 29.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by SlvrDragon50
ean=96 jester=94 turn autogain off turn ears on |
| Gaynell Rydberg 29.03.2013 | Yes.. before I discovered mp3gain and used Traktor's autogain, songs were inconsistent. I don't know what else you want. WOuld you like me to record a sample of every song and give it to you? Regardless, mp3gain works for me and a bunch of other users here. If you did not notice a difference in your songs after running them through mp3gain, you did something wrong or used a very old version of mp3gain. I don't know anyone who uses mp3gain and leave Traktor autogain on. Point of mp3gain is to turn off Traktor autogain. You can read the opinions of other people here: http://community .djranking s.com/showthread.php?t=67968 |
| Nicky Waddill 29.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by SlvrDragon50
i mean, i see two explanations for your claim. one, you were affected by one or more autogain bugs in the past and have bad autogain values. two, you are imagining this. of course, there's a third possibility, namely that mp3gain is actually better. but in light of the facts i presented above (particularly, the 1.5db step size of mp3gain), i consider that extremely unlikely. |
| Gaynell Rydberg 29.03.2013 | mp3gain works perfectly for me... I can tell a clear difference between which songs have run through mp3gain and which ones haven't. Traktor autogain is awful. It's not consistent enough. Some are loud, other ones are soft. |
| Nicky Waddill 30.03.2013 | one more thing. people sometimes say "i use mp3gain but leave autogain on." if all you care about is traktor, that's kinda absurd. in that scenario, autogain will take precedence because it is applied last. so autogain will just offset whatever change mp3gain made. e.g., if mp3gain reduced the mp3's global gain by 1.5dB, the autogain will just be 1.5db larger than it would have been had you not run the file through mp3tgain. |
| Nicky Waddill 30.03.2013 | mp3gain is nothing but a big waste of your time. mp3gain works in two modes. in the first mode, replaygain values are written into the metadata. that metadata is completely useless for DJing with traktor because traktor ignores those replaygain values. in the second mode, the computed replaygain is applied to the actual audio stream (in a reversible manner). that's not terribly useful when DJing with traktor, either, because you can only modify the frames in an mp3 in 1.5dB increments. that's quite imprecise. traktor's own autogain algorithm is much more precise, applying gain in 0.1dB increments. besides, it's likely that replaygain-that's what mp3gain is based on-is very similar to autogain. i haven't tested this, though. it's possible that traktor uses a more modern algorithm a la EBU R128. i believe it's unlikely that traktor uses an algorithm older than replaygain. |
| Gaynell Rydberg 30.03.2013 | 94-96 |
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