Linux Jukebox

[Jonathan Hutchins]

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>Subject: RE: Linux Jukebox
>Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:59:31 -0500
>Message-ID: <FEDF8BF5FC2C7B47943BE6638462E8A11DB4B3 at kcexch1.celeritas.com>
>From: "Becker, Rob" <Becker at celeritas.com 
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> If I may suggest and intermediate step to your ripping process, I 
> would rip the wav files from the cd's, perform volume normalization on 
> them, then encode them in whatever format you prefer (I would suggest 
> ogg vorbis, learn more here www.vorbis.com ) I have a similar project 
> mostly completed and I've found that just encoding cd's with no 
> normalization results in music that can drastically fluxuate in 
> volume. In my car, this is very troublesome, as it leaves me fiddling 
> with the volume from song to song.

So what program would you use for normalising the files?  I notice that 
grip has the ability to insert a filtering step.