However you are best to not alter the audio signal, destructively, write Replaygain tags which are averaged on perceived loudness and can be used later by a player.
Thanks for getting back.
Here's my situation--
I am building an online radio station of deep and forgotten songs. There will be well over 10,000 songs going in just to start. The CD's being ripped-in vary quite a bit in quality. After loading in a batch, it became obvious that most of the MP3's would need some audio assist. I am using Station Playlist as the radio automation software. Their latest version contains a normalization feature. I ran a few through at -1db and they sounded great. I realize that the actual MP3 will remain at the old quality and the enhanced version will live on the Station Playlist site. I chose dbpoweramp because you had normalization capabilities. I now realize that using your program for that will normalize the actual MP3...thus making the change irreversible. As I have thousands of songs to load, I want to make sure I have some basic, but quality settings locked in to rip via dbpoweramp. So, knowing I will normalize later at -1db, do you have any thoughts/suggestions? Right now I have things set at Sample: 44.1 KHZ and an Average Bit Rate of 320kbps. (It seems to actually go in at 298).
I pretty much just want to have some solid and smart "set-it-and-forget-it" settings to get through all the CD ripping.
Thank you in advance for your help and guidance.
You can try the Adaptive normalization option on the volume normalize option, it has been used in the past by some major radio stations, it means even if you had a classical track which had a very quiet section, you would still hear it at expected radio volumes.
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