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Question about mp3gain. Has this to do with cd ?

I ripped and encoded my own cd's,  mostly rather recent bought,  with EAC, using alt-preset-standard.
When I run mp3 gain on them, using 92 dB target volume, a number of tracks show up as clipping so that I have to set 89 or 90 dB as target.
Has this to do with the quality of the cd/recordings itself ?
 

Question about mp3gain. Has this to do with cd ?

Reply #1 –
You loose a few dB when you encode to most lossy formats (actually i think you loose it on decode, but same difference).  So if the CD was mastered just below clipping, encoding to lossy could push it over the edge and cause it to clip.  89 dB is the most common setting anyway, so I'd just use that.