A zillion ways to store loudness/gaining information.

Here be dragons: A word on MP3 files and ID3 tags.

Time to save the tags and listen to the music!.

Just for fun: What if we really followed the EBU R128 recommendation?.

Analyze again, using clipping prevention.Example: Mary Black’s album »No Frontiers« (1989).Strip unwanted ID3v1/APEv2 tags -S ( -striptags).Uppercase or lowercase 'REPLAYGAIN_*' tags?.rgbpm – Folder-based loudness and BPM scanning.TECHNICAL DETAILS (advanced users stuff).Installation on Windows 10 (Linux bash).Installation using Homebrew (Mac & Linux).Windows 10 users: Read Installation on Windows 10 (Linux bash). Mac users: Read Installation using Homebrew (Mac & Linux). It starts much slower, but brings all its dependencies with it, and thus can even be used on older systems. You can use this if you only want to try out loudgain, cannot or don’t wish to compile it yourself. Note: There is a »runnable« version for 64-bit systems in the bin folder, called loudgain.static.

Just what you ever wanted: The best of mp3gain, ReplayGain 2.0 and Linux combined. It uses the well-known mp3gain commandline syntax but will never modify the actual audio data. Loudgain is a versatile ReplayGain 2.0 loudness normalizer, based on the EBU R128/ITU BS.1770 standard (-18 LUFS) and supports FLAC/Ogg/MP2/MP3/MP4/M4A/ALAC/Opus/ASF/WMA/WAV/WavPack/AIFF/APE audio files. Imortant note: I don’t currently have enough time to work on loudgain, but I intend to come back and take care of all the great suggestions and PR’s you made! In the meantime, I’d be happy if someone really knowledgeable could help, ideally someone who could explain a) how to set up a co-maintainership here, b) would take care of some issues & PR’s, and c) probably be able to make this an official Debian/Ubuntu/Mint package.

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