In article ,
NRen2k5 wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:
The thing is, that field is ALWAYS maxed out whenever anyone hands you
an MP3, because all the encoders want their products to play back as loudly
as possible. So you can usually turn it down, but seldom can you turn it
up.

No.

It's the music industry that wants their *songs* to play as loudly as
possible, so they use dynamic compression to be able to make them as
loud as possible on CD.

That's a different issue altogether. That's not an encoding issue.

With CD, where you have no encoding, the only way to make playback louder
is with abusive compression.

With MP3, you have the field available to you when you encode it.

Back in the LP days, it was all manual, and you had to put "PLAY THIS
RECORD AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE" in the liner notes.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."