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Subject: Re: unique, automatically loaded EQ for each song

Re: unique, automatically loaded EQ for each song

From: mrlipring <mrlipring_at_tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:12:42 +0100

gaaah, all my posts are coming through in the wrong order...


----- Original Message -----
From: "mrlipring" <mrlipring_at_tiscali.co.uk>
To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: unique, automatically loaded EQ for each song


> doesn't that involve reencoding though?
>
> either way, it involves changing the file itself. you can't listen to a
song
> in a global playlist, normalised, then decide you want to listen to that
> album, with each song in its original volume context (can't think of the
> proper way to say that, but you get me).
>
> We need to be able to store something in an extended id3v2 tag that holds
> the normalisation info. Even if it involved running an external app over
the
> files once, then rockbox reads this extra tag, that'd be excellent.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Greenfield" <dgreenfield_at_taltrade.com>
> To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 2:41 PM
> Subject: RE: unique, automatically loaded EQ for each song
>
>
> I use a program called MP3GAIN that adjusts mp3 files to a specified dB
> level.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mrlipring [mailto:mrlipring_at_tiscali.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 8:41 PM
> To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se
> Subject: Re: unique, automatically loaded EQ for each song
>
>
> That arses up the natural feeling of listening to them as albums though.
AND
> it'd take ages. AND you'd have to reencode them all, losing quality.
>
> Winamp does (did?) a thing where you can set an eq for each song, it's
> loaded from a database in the WA folder.
>
> Either doing it like that, or adding a custom id3v2 tag would work, i'd
> imagine.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glenn Ervin at home" <GlennErvin_at_cableone.net>
> To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:57 AM
> Subject: Re: unique, automatically loaded EQ for each song
>
>
> > Can't you use MusicMatch or a program like GoldWave and open all of the
> > files on the JBR and level the volume on all of the songs at once and
> > permanently?
> > Glenn.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "jb" <res0at31_at_verizon.net>
> > To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
> > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 2:36 AM
> > Subject: unique, automatically loaded EQ for each song
> >
> >
> > A while ago Björn Stenberg wrote that an upcoming feature would
> > automatically load a previously created .cfg file for each song.
> > This would allow individualized EQ's to automatically load for each
> > song, which for those who listen to songs from a million different
> > sources one after another, all recorded with different volume and
> > bass levels, is the Holy Grail.
> >
> > Is this automatically loading feature here yet?
> >
> > If not, any idea when?
> >
> > One important question: I would like to be able to just click on a
> > save .cfg file button after I've adjusted each song and limit
> > the .cfg file automatically to audio settings. I don't want to have
> > it take settings for other stuff, like backlight time, etc.
> > Otherwise it will be a mess if I change non-audio settings, and then
> > each time a song .cfg loads, the non-audio stuff would get reverted
> > back to what it was when I created that .cfg file.
> >
> > I know I could go into each .cfg file and erase the stuff I don't want,
> > but for hundreds of songs, that's alot of work, and it would be much
> > easier to have a way so that just the audio settings are saved
> > automatically.
> >
> > How can I do that?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
>
>
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