I’ve been using MP3Gain for all of the songs that I have on my computer until recently. It’s a program that converts all your songs to (relatively) the same volume. Being the lazy ass I am, I never bother to adjust the volume knob — so I used that, until recently.
A couple of hip-hop songs I acquired have really distinguishable bass. But once I applied the MP3Gain filter to them, they became really plain and boring. All the emphasis was gone. Now I feel really lost out on all my other songs (1200+). I wish I never used MP3Gain on all of them, and not saving backups. And no I don’t have the originals.
Has anyone ever used this? Is it the same for you or am I just being really critical?
I don’t get it, why do you want the old versions of the non hip-hop songs if it didn’t ruin those?
Yeah man never use that kind of stuff, it’s terrible for song quality. Anything with any kind of decent bass line is going to get absolutely massacred. I ticked on iTune’s automatic volume adjuster to give everything a consistent volume due to a couple of albums ripping rather quietly for some reason but they sounded so bad once I did that. I imagine there’s a high fidelity tool out there that does this kind of thing, and I’d like to know if anyone finds it, but anything I’ve ever seen has just been awful.
Yup. That’s happened with me too. I raised the volume of quite a number of songs with MP3Gain, and you can say I ‘lost them’. I think it ‘normalizes’ the whole song. Raises the volume of the sounds with low volume and keeps the other one intact. Never used it since that day.
The reason I kept on using it (for about a whole year) is because I had really crappy speakers until recently. Now I can actually hear the difference.
Oh ok, I see now.
A comment on the “Comments Closed” post…
You could install a random word authentication system, like that in gmail signups.. people with eyes could read it, type it and comment.. and bots won’t be able to spam anymore.
Or maybe, comment moderation?
I’d moderate comments older than a number of days (there is a plugin like that), but spam would still come. I wish I could show you the screenshot of what I was getting each day. Pages and pages (each page = 20 comments) of spam that I have to delete. And for each spam, I’d copy its website address and put it in the filter. It just took way too much of my life away.
I’ve always hated the authentication thing. But I guess I’ll have to think of something to authenticate users.
Stop fooking disabling your comments lol!! I go read your post (it’s an honor coming from me) and I go to comment then BAM it don’t allow it.. *tut tut* thankies for liking my layout lol. I like putting random other colours together. Rainbows are my favourite.. hehehe