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Should music encoded with aac be normalized to 98% like in mp3/mpc?

Regards
A Man Eating Duck
Who are you and how did you get in here ?
I'm a locksmith, I'm a locksmith.

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Reply #1 –
This is strictly a personal preferrence (like choosing a nick and avatar....).  However, I never normalize because it can alter your music and/or introduce artifacts (so I read).  I use replaygain instead.

Quack!

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Reply #2 –
You should *never* normalize, not in MP3, not in MPC, and not in AAC. Normalization is usually done with non-optimal algorithms that will amplify the existing quantization noise. It's much better to apply ReplayGain.

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Reply #3 –
Doh

Does AAC Support ReplayGain??

Regards
A Man Eating Duck
Who are you and how did you get in here ?
I'm a locksmith, I'm a locksmith.

normalizing

Reply #4 –
Actually, I don't think ReplayGain supports AAC files.  I can't find any referrence to AAC files on its website.  Go here for more information:

http://www.replaygain.org/

Also, maybe it's time you switch to OGG or MPC.  Read the threads throughout this board to see why almost everyone thinks these formats are superior to AAC and MP3.

Daffy

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Reply #5 –
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Originally posted by A_Man_Eating_Duck
Doh

Does AAC Support ReplayGain??

Regards
A Man Eating Duck
No, not yet... I suggest you use WaveGain instead... As long as you're not planning on doing some transcoding and normalization afterwards, then there shouldn't be any problems...

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Reply #6 –
No, there is not a ReplayGain program for aac at this time.

I know the arguments against normalizing, but I have produced a program that I think works fine called WaveGain, available at Roberto's main site, that applies the ReplayGain algorithms directly to wav files. It makes a volume adjustment +/- and works in Track or Album mode. Give it a try, if you don't like the result, you've only lost a little time!!

Edit: Damn me Sachankara beat me to it!!

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Reply #7 –
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Originally posted by A_Man_Eating_Duck
Does AAC Support ReplayGain??


In beta stage, yes.

DSPguru is adding AACgain routines to BeSplit.

Regards;

Roberto.