--=-bon13+La6ecfBvN3rIeH Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thank you all. Craig, I understand the hardware side of things (aspiring audio engineer, ironically enough) and if I had recorded the file, then things would have been done differently but needless to say, I didn't. More accurately, this file was ripped from a cd, obviously by analog input listening to its quality, that is very far away, or perhaps next door, I don't know. Kurt, I just want the song to be at about the same volume as the rest of my playlist and the volume normalizing plugins for XMMS I've tried don't do exactly what I want done, that is they level a song's volume but not to the average level of the playlist which is bad anyways because loud songs would be quiet and so on and so forth. Again, thank you everyone. It looks like I'll be playing with sox for now. Especially because I need to search for Satanic messages :-P. On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 13:34, Craig Brooksby wrote: > > Does anyone know how I could increase the volume > > of a particular audio file? It recorded very softly ... >=20 > Recording it softly and then bumping up the volume level is roughly > analogous to shooting a picture at 640 x 480 and then blowing it up to > an 8 by 10. You may get a servicable picture, but can never recapture > the lost resolution. >=20 > It is far better to re-record (if possible) and use every bit of every > byte you've got (and no more). If the softs are too soft, and the louds > too loud, consider an audio compressor to reduce the dynamic range of > your source. I only know the hardware kind (plentiful and cheap on > e-bay) although I'm told there are software audio compressors too... >=20 > Those are my two bits. Perhaps you already knew all that. In which > case I apologize. =20 >=20 > Can I ask the group -- is there good audio software out there for > Linux? You know -- VU meters, mixer, editor, perhaps a synth channel or > two? My son is a FruityLoops fanatic (he does recreations of game music > on MP3.com -- artistname "kikuichimoji"). Anything synth-like in the > linux world? I know, I know -- Google. But anybody out there into this > kind of stuff? >=20 > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --=20 Bryce C CoBryce Communications --=-bon13+La6ecfBvN3rIeH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/gfqA/wbq/C6yyPcRAvCbAJ4gUCuMgs6cumbjF+18sY3TpD9TXQCgjnYr b9BgzYNJLMKeuZEmm02RA2g= =v+GK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-bon13+La6ecfBvN3rIeH--