I have an iRiver h140 mp3 player Got loads of mp3 albums on it I want to alter the general gain so that all albums play at approximately the same volume Ive figured out that I get minimal clipping at around 93.5 Some of the albums are already higher than this figure eg some are at 97 Even at 93.5 some tracks are clipping Do I really need to alter the gain so I have no clipping Or is some clipping ok Thx
The amount of clipping will depend on how the track was encoded in the first place. Some encoders will allow significant clipping, if the person doing it sets up the configuration badly. There's a lossless tool called mp3Gain available free at http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/ It will automatically normalise your tracks to remove clipping without reducing clarity.
