Posted by NRen2k5 on 11/16/34 11:52

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.

You would never *want* to turn *up* the gain on these files, since it
will make the already-existing clipping even worse, but you can do it.

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