lame volume encoding question

[Michael A. Peters]

I rip all my CD's to flac for archive purposes (rip once, rip right)

For listening, I have a shell script that reads the tag info,  
uncompresses to wav, and uses lame with --preset-standard and all my  
tag information to output nice tagged mp3's.

Occasionally there is a CD that is lower volume than others, and when  
my jukebox (Jamboree or Rhythmbox or sox whatever) plays the songs, I  
have to boost the volume on stereo to enjoy it.

I know xmms has a normalize plugin, and there may be a gstreamer- 
plugins way as well, but I'd like to normalize at the encoding step if  
possible so that I don't need to normalize music at the playing step.

It looks lame has a --scale option that could do this, but it needs a  
value specified. But what would be cool is some way of automagically  
determing what the --scale should be, so that it is not a trial and  
error with individual album issue.

Anyone know how to do this?


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