[dorino]

MID:
 
ReplayGain should be on the Sansa Fuze. If not, Rockbox should have support for it. http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaFuze
 
You need to give your tracks ReplayGain meta-data, so download MediaMonkey and start it. Get your music into the program and set up volume leveling under Tools -> Options -> Volume Leveling.
 
Select your music and Tools -> Analyze Volume. Do not "Level Track Volume". Anyway, it'll probably need to run over night to do a whole collection. Be careful to normalize per album or something if that's what you want, unless you want your tracks all normalized to eachother for some reason.
 
EDIT: Foobar also has this feature! I've been using foobar for awhile but never noticed it. I typically don't bother normalizing my music.

 

[Chris_Himself]

I saw some kid wearing PS-500's today. I kinda tailed him for a bit and he was listening to dubstep rather audibly while walking to class... but he made it to class before I could shoulder tap him and engage in what could possibly be the nerdiest conversation possible LOL
 
Alright spill the beans, which one of you dodged me today?
 
I wonder if PS500 is better than RS-2?
 
I'll have to Ocean's 11 him to find out mehehehe

 

[Gwarmi]

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I saw some kid wearing PS-500's today. I kinda tailed him for a bit and he was listening to dubstep rather audibly while walking to class... but he made it to class before I could shoulder tap him and engage in what could possibly be the nerdiest conversation possible LOL
 
Alright spill the beans, which one of you dodged me today?
 
I wonder if PS500 is better than RS-2?
 
I'll have to Ocean's 11 him to find out mehehehe

 
 You might have scared the hell out of him 

 

 

[Melvins]

Whose waling around with such valuable cans is the real question 

 

[chrislangley4253]

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Isn't it generally ideal to rip exact, play with the max volume (skipping windows kernel if that's an obstacle) in order to feed bit-perfect audio to the DAC?

yes
 
 


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I think the ideal way is to do it yourself, controlling the volume via amp.

yes
 


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What player are you using? 
 
If you're using Foobar, you can normalize the playback volumes under File --> Preferences --> Playback --> ReplayGain 
 
I'd leave the normalizing to the playback side of things, and not the encoding side since you want to keep the source files as close to the source as possible.

yes
 


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I guess foobar is for the computer? I am talking portable players. The sanza fuse doesn't normalize anything for me.

yes. Look into getting Rockbox for the fuze, if you have an older one. 


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MID:
 
ReplayGain should be on the Sansa Fuze. If not, Rockbox should have support for it. http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaFuze
 
You need to give your tracks ReplayGain meta-data, so download MediaMonkey and start it. Get your music into the program and set up volume leveling under Tools -> Options -> Volume Leveling.
 
Select your music and Tools -> Analyze Volume. Do not "Level Track Volume". Anyway, it'll probably need to run over night to do a whole collection. Be careful to normalize per album or something if that's what you want, unless you want your tracks all normalized to eachother for some reason.
 
EDIT: Foobar also has this feature! I've been using foobar for awhile but never noticed it. I typically don't bother normalizing my music.

pretty much beat me to the punch


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I saw some kid wearing PS-500's today. I kinda tailed him for a bit and he was listening to dubstep rather audibly while walking to class... but he made it to class before I could shoulder tap him and engage in what could possibly be the nerdiest conversation possible LOL
 
Alright spill the beans, which one of you dodged me today?
 
I wonder if PS500 is better than RS-2?
 
I'll have to Ocean's 11 him to find out mehehehe

 
Love it when this happens
 
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Whose waling around with such valuable cans is the real question 

Prolly figures no one realizes what he has.. I walk around campus with my magnums, knowing that no one knows what they are worth. 
 
 

 

[Chris_Himself]

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 You might have scared the hell out of him 

 

I am adorable. Nobody is scared of me.


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Whose waling around with such valuable cans is the real question 

College kids can sometimes be the most entitled people in my town, it's sad but it is what it is. I mean I'm in class right now and somebody is just in class browsing Reddit on a 2000 dollar Macbook Air in front of me
 

 

[rdnrvn]

 
If we guys can spend over $500 just for a pair of headphones, I think you are allowed to get a Macbook Air for $1300 or whatever it costs. Even just to browse Reddit

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College kids can sometimes be the most entitled people in my town, it's sad but it is what it is. I mean I'm in class right now and somebody is just in class browsing Reddit on a 2000 dollar Macbook Air in front of me
 

 

 

[davidgotsa]

So what? People aren't allowed to spend money on whatever they want and can afford? What's your point?
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I am adorable. Nobody is scared of me.


College kids can sometimes be the most entitled people in my town, it's sad but it is what it is. I mean I'm in class right now and somebody is just in class browsing Reddit on a 2000 dollar Macbook Air in front of me
 

 

 

[Melvins]

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I am adorable. Nobody is scared of me.


College kids can sometimes be the most entitled people in my town, it's sad but it is what it is. I mean I'm in class right now and somebody is just in class browsing Reddit on a 2000 dollar Macbook Air in front of me
 

lol and you are clearly browsing headfi.
 
I mean, Grado's just look plain silly in public. That, and you can't even get the full quietness that the cans deserve to really benefit the listening experience, so what's the point? I would just use a pair of ibuds in public and just wait to go back to my dorm/house/whatever to get the full experience of the grado's. Obviously others feel differently about the situation

 

[Melvins]

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So what? People aren't allowed to spend money on whatever they want and can afford? What's your point?


 

Capitalism promotes greed. GREED IS GOOD DOE RITE

 

[Melvins]

Socialism promotes entitlement though. So. Where's the median.

 

[Chris_Himself]

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So what? People aren't allowed to spend money on whatever they want and can afford? What's your point?


 

Mad engines full speed ahead
 


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lol and you are clearly browsing headfi.
 
I mean, Grado's just look plain silly in public. That, and you can't even get the full quietness that the cans deserve to really benefit the listening experience, so what's the point? I would just use a pair of ibuds in public and just wait to go back to my dorm/house/whatever to get the full experience of the grado's. Obviously others feel differently about the situation

Professional slacker here. It's day one of circuit analysis class at SJSU. We're on semester terms so I can afford to space out just for today.
 
Oh trust me, Grados look redickyoulus in public, but you can listen to them quietly amongst other people and it turns out fine. I like having situational awareness when I'm out and about too at the expense of not really being able to hear as much I suppose. I'm not refuting anybody else's points on them, I just have my own reasons for carrying a pair on me everyday
 

 

[rogan]

im thinking of going 'backwards' with my music collection, as 90% of my library (6,000 songs or so) its 256kbit or less
 
currently looking into the cost of getting my favourite 300-400 albums on CD

 

[chrislangley4253]

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Socialism promotes entitlement though. So. Where's the median.

we will blow ourselves up before we find the answer
 


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im thinking of going 'backwards' with my music collection, as 90% of my library (6,000 songs or so) its 256kbit or less
 
currently looking into the cost of getting my favourite 300-400 albums on CD

Ouch... Perhaps you could just slowly build up the library.. instead of grabbing 400 albums at once, although that is a good starting point and is actually how I kicked off my collection 
 

 

[Deckard1979]

Yeah, know that feeling... but imagine the expense (not to mention the additional storage requirements).
 
I have about 350 cds, the rest is digital and the majority of that is lossy (WMA VBA 256-320 or similar... some lower).
 
Already spend more than is probably acceptable on music/equipment though.
 
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im thinking of going 'backwards' with my music collection, as 90% of my library (6,000 songs or so) its 256kbit or less
 
currently looking into the cost of getting my favourite 300-400 albums on CD