A Ripper that will provide "Level Input"
Reply #21 –
FWIW, I've been playing around with pre-scaling via batch with Lame and later with NeroAacEnc via Sox. I wanted to see how my method compared with fb2k's and ran into something quite interesting.
It appears that using fb2k to apply replay gain when decoding flac to wave and then encoding the wave to mp3 (again using fb2k) resulted in a different file than using fb2k to apply replay gain when when transcoding the flac to mp3 without creating the interim wave.
When comparing the wave created by fb2k and one created by my batch, the only difference was samples with an amplitude no greater than 1. I would imagine they were only rounding differences (EDIT: I don't think it's dither, but I could be wrong). I'm still using 0.9.4.2, BTW.