How Do I Vol. Normalize and Keep the same quality

[hatfield]

First off, I am sorry that I even have to post this question. I have a feeling the answer is somewhere in the forum. I was able to find one part that I needed: A 320 kbps file, converted to a 320 kbps file loses quality. Is that correct?

If it is, I need help doing a project where I want to normalize the volume on a bunch of tracks but not lose the kbps quality. My understanding is that you have to run the converter for the DSP volume normalize to make the changes I want. I'm hoping to avoid this as I want to keep my 320 kbps files and have normalized volume.

If anyone has some info that would help, I would appreciate it. Thanks to the hard work done by spoon, Lt. etc... I purchased your last two updates and look forward to more in the future. This is a great program. Thanks!!

[Spoon]

Re: How Do I Vol. Normalize and Keep the same quality

Converting looses quality, but 320 to 320 will not loose any real perceptable quality.

[hatfield]

Re: How Do I Vol. Normalize and Keep the same quality

Thanks Spoon! Is that the same for lower values such as 240 --> 240 and 190 --> 190? Thanks again for helping me out!

[LtData]

Re: How Do I Vol. Normalize and Keep the same quality

The lower the bitrate, the more quality that would be lost, as the lower bitrates are designed to squeeze out some of the data anyway.

[EliC]

Re: How Do I Vol. Normalize and Keep the same quality

What player do you need to play them on? You can simply add ReplyGain tags to normalize the audio with zero loss of quality if your player support replaygain.