Chris A Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 15 hours ago, jdmccall said: In EZ CD there's two normalization options: loudness and peak. I am using loudness. All my rips were made like this, so.......🥴 I found this on another forum: Quote EZ CD Audio Converter does not do Peak Normalization. Only normalization for perceived loudness (EBU R128, ReplayGain v2) is supported. Perceived loudness normalization is the correct one (EBU R128 v2). If you can select no normalization, for the album you cited, above, that would likely turn out better, so it doesn't try to either boost or attenuate the overall level. For "loud" albums, the loudness control would be highly desirable to attenuate down to a reference level, but for the album you cited (http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/year?artist=Paul+Simon&album=Still+crazy) it looks like it's okay without. If you could switch to lossless compression (FLAC, etc.), it would be much better sounding and you'd avoid all this thrashing about to get better sound. Lossy compression (e.g., mp3) is unnecessary nowadays, and really can easily be abandoned because hardware storage costs are trivial. The only time lossy compression is useful is for older and probably obsolete personal mobile players (w/earbuds, that is) and phones that lack sufficient storage capacity. Chris 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rplace Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 2 hours ago, Chris A said: If you could switch to lossless compression (FLAC, etc.), it would be much better sounding and you'd avoid all this thrashing about to get better sound. Lossy compression (e.g., mp3) is unnecessary nowadays, and really can easily be abandoned because hardware storage costs are trivial This really is the best course of action. The one time pain of re-ripping to FLAC will fade as you both listen to the music and know it is the best that particular source material can be. Or more accurately nothing more and nothing less than when you bought it. There are services to rip CDs if time is an issue. Perfectly tagged and you can get both FLAC and high quality portable mp3 in one shot. For that don't know. Check out FLAC squished. Once you have them all in FLAC you can point it at any number of files and make different sized MP3s if you need something for travel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdmccall Posted January 22, 2021 Author Share Posted January 22, 2021 Thanks for all the advice! I think I'll definitely do flac this time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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