Hey Tom,
>> Just learnt how to use normalize, but am still confused about the
>> normal and -mix mode. Let's say I have three files with the RMS
>> volume of 3, 5 and 7 (1 being quietest, 10 being loudest). As far as
>> I understand, normalize without switches raises the RMS volume of all
>> the files to 10. Normalize in the mix mode should calculate the
>> average RMS volume (5 in this case) and put all files' RMS volume to
>> this level. However, today -mix gave me a higher volume on the output
>> file than normalize without switches. How come?
> MIX MODE
>This mode is made especially for making mixed CD's and the
>like. You want every song on the mix to be the same vol
>ume, but it doesn't matter if they are the same volume as
>the songs on some other mix you made last week. In mix
>mode, average level of all the files is computed, and each
>file is separately normalized to this average volume.
Thanks for your answer. I have read the manual thoroughly.
> So, for example, in my /wav directory, I run 'normalize -m *.wav'
> IME, that this always goes thru all the .wav files, and determines an
> average volume. Then normalize proceeds to show that it is either
> raising or lowering (+db, -db) each individual file to the average
> volume level.
> Maybe I don't understand your question.
Probably ;-).
So, to rephrase it, what does normalize do *without* any switches?
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TIA
Roman
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