Re: [LAU] Playing .mp3 from playlist with equal volume

Hi,

here my solution I used which solved mx problems for the Christmas Party
except that I used one Windows program under wine.
But I did not have time enough to try the solution proposed by Roger.

Used equipment:
iBook 13" 2GB RAM with Linux MINT 17 xfce

Used SW:
Clementine 1.3.1 Player with Remote control via Android App.
FooBar2000 1.3.13 (under wine)

Database creation:
simply with "ls -1 > dbfile" and then imported into Libre Office Calc,
preprocessed and exported with field separator "#".
With some scripts (.SH and AWK) I could search for Titles, Artists and
word combinations very quickly and also prepare automatically the xml
playlists for Clementine (the .xpsf format is understand also by iTunes
and other famous players).

Equal volume:
To have an almost equal volume while playing the songs I made a scan
with FooBar2000 and wrote back into the mp3 tags the "replayGain values".

Clementine, adjust properties:
Dont forget to activate in Clementine remote Control and also use of the
replay gain values for each track.

Summary:
During the Event all nessecary features worked well. The volume was
almost the same. No adjustment during Playback was necessary.
Clementine is very easy to handle with playlists also if they are
created in the background while playing. There is no need to import the
music in advance. No big diskspace necessary.
Also the remote control apllication worked fine.
Not very necessary on that list to know but Clementine works in the same
way on Windows too.

Many thanks for all your hints and tips.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Gerald

On 2016-12-10 00:33, Roger wrote:
> normalize-audio is not suitable for lossy files as it needs to
> uncompress then recompress the file causing quality loss.
> As I mentioned earlier, DeaDBeeF with the 2 plugins works well and is
> very similar to Foobar2000. It's not in Debian repos but the .deb on the
> website works perfectly.
> mp3gain has been dropped from Debian (still available from Wheezy repo),
> but python-rgain is its replacement.
> My favourite tool for replaygain is SoundKonverter which can process any
> number of files in one set, but may need a few KDE dependencies. It also
> depends on mp3gain but works if you manually install the Wheezy version.
>
> On 09/12/16 16:31, david wrote:
>> vorbisgain - add replaygain volume tags to Ogg Vorbis files.
>>
>> normalize-audio - adjusts the volume of WAV, MP3 and OGG files to a
>> standard volumne level. I think this would change the actual level of
>> the file, not set a replay gain value. But, of course, then the sound
>> level would be the same in any audio player.
>>
>> On 12/07/2016 09:30 PM, Gerald Pechoc wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I thank you all very much for tips and hints.
>>> I have found Clementine is a very nice player where works fine cross
>>> fading and replay gain and I can easily handle my playlists (xspf).
>>>
>>> I have also tried to create replay gain values with foobar2000 and
>>> finally Clementine played the music well.
>>>
>>> Remains a QUESTION:
>>> is there a good tool on Linux to replace Foobar2000 for getting the
>>> replay gain values?
>>> I have a windows box too but I want to do the whole job on my Linux
>>> device.
>>>
>>> Many thanks for any idea.
>>> Gerald
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2016-12-08 05:57, david wrote:
>>>> On 12/07/2016 01:33 PM, Roger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I really like DeaDBeeF player. It can use replaygain for playback, and
>>>>> also has a plugin available to calculate it and write the required
>>>>> metadata.
>>>>>
>>>>> If it's not in Mint repo, the version from MX Linux repo should
>>>>> work, or
>>>>> the .deb from their website.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/
>>>>>
>>>>> http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ (plugins from here too. Needs Replay
>>>>> Gain Scanner and Replay Gain Control GTK2 UI)
>>>>
>>>> Deadbeef isn't in the Debian repos, either.
>>
>>
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Received on Sat Dec 17 16:15:02 2016