Volume om some cd’s

Posted by: Claus on 14 January 2018

Hi,

Some of my ripped cd’s have an extremely high sound level, mostly pop music from 2000 onwards. This is quite annoying, especially when some of those songs are mixed on a playlist with songs with a more normal output level.

Is there any way to reduce the level of a ripped cd, or during the ripping, without a drop in SQ ? I guess I could even live with a slight degradation of SQ if the output level was ‘normalized’.

Claus

Posted on: 23 January 2018 by Huge

I have also investigated this (analysing forty or so files) and my findings are quite different.

Yes the files that sounded significantly louder are almost always more compressed, but I found that, in the vast majority of cases, they also have peak levels quite near to the 16bit maximum, typically within 1dB or 2dB (but sometimes even showing a small amount of hard clipping when examined closely). Being more compressed and at the same time equalised to near max volume, their average level was also considerably above that of the files with a more moderate sound level.