I'm encoding many audio files these days, and tried foobar and dMC, the reason why I choose dMC finally is that it has a better remove silence between track function than foobar's gap killer plugin. But I found that the volume normalization feature in dMC is not so functional as foobar's encode with replaygain, the problem is even I encode a file with that DSP enabled, the louder is still louder and the lighter is still lighter, and when I use foobar to analyze those encoded files, I found that the normalization effect is not so obvious, the result is shown as below: (all use default setting, dMC with Simple normalization)
before encode after encode(dMC) after encode(foobar)
gain peak gain peak gain peak
file1 -5.17db 0.945954 -5.23db 1.065336 -0.02db 0.531334
file2 -7.93db 1.125331 -7.51db 1.303613 -0.02db 0.454055
As you can see, foobar is really try to get the track gain close to 0 db, but dMC doesn't seem to do anything reasonable. And the output of foobar is really seem to be standardize the volume.....
Can anyone help me to explain this ?
before encode after encode(dMC) after encode(foobar)
gain peak gain peak gain peak
file1 -5.17db 0.945954 -5.23db 1.065336 -0.02db 0.531334
file2 -7.93db 1.125331 -7.51db 1.303613 -0.02db 0.454055
As you can see, foobar is really try to get the track gain close to 0 db, but dMC doesn't seem to do anything reasonable. And the output of foobar is really seem to be standardize the volume.....
Can anyone help me to explain this ?
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