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Procyon

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[SOLVED] How to equalize mp3s

I have an album of mp3s with way too much bass.

cmus doesn't have an equalizer, so I need a separate one that writes back to the mp3. Does such a thing exist?

Last edited by Procyon (2008-07-25 09:46:10)

vogt

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Re: [SOLVED] How to equalize mp3s

I'm pretty sure that audacity can reduce bass somehow.

andre.ramaciotti

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Re: [SOLVED] How to equalize mp3s

Well, audacity does have an equalizer, but I don't think there is a way to automate it. You'll have to open each file individually and equalize it. Depending on how many songs you have, you'll spend some good time on it.

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rooloo

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Re: [SOLVED] How to equalize mp3s

just the other day some posted a script that equalized individual songs and entire albums using ffmpeg I think.

You might wanna search the site very closely, it was less then 2 weeks ago.

Procyon

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Re: [SOLVED] How to equalize mp3s

That's great! I'll want to make sure it's just perfect anyway. Thanks.

Procyon

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Re: [SOLVED] How to equalize mp3s

just the other day some posted a script that equalized individual songs and entire albums using ffmpeg I think.

You might wanna search the site very closely, it was less then 2 weeks ago.

Ok, I'll look into that too. I didn't know ffmpeg can do that, once I find the option it shouldn't be too hard to find in the forums.

rooloo

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Re: [SOLVED] How to equalize mp3s

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=51652

nvm, it was mp3gain.

you even posted in the thread.

Procyon

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Re: [SOLVED] How to equalize mp3s

That's funny, but I just tried it out and it can't lower just bass.

And I just played around a bit with audacity and trying out something extreme already had good results, so it's just fine tuning now.

vsk

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Registered: 2008-05-27

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Re: [SOLVED] How to equalize mp3s

Have you tried gnormalize?
If you're not a gtk fan, the command line version should suffice.

It always gets the job done for me.