Re: [ecasound] ecanormalize question

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Subject: Re: [ecasound] ecanormalize question
From: Kai Vehmanen (k_AT_eca.cx)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 23:52:59 EEST

Hi,

another late reply.

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, William Goldsmith wrote:

> Is there any way to pass mp3 encoding parameters to ecanormalize? If you do
> 'ecanormalize blah.mp3' the resulting file is encoded at 128kb regardless of
> what the file's original bitrate was.

Unfortunately no. And in general it's a bad idea to do 'mp3 -> processing
-> mp3', as decoding+re-encoding greatly reduces the sound quality. So
it's better to normalize the original uncompressed data and then encode. 

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