How to install AACGain

[etys rule]

In case anyone is interested.

Download and install mp3gain here. Go here. Choose AACGain (last choice under AAC Encoders). Download it. Open it. Double click AACGain. Extract All. Right click on the icon titled aacgain and rename it to mp3gain. Copy that file into your mp3gain folder. It will prompt you to replace. Choose YES. Then you are done.

 

[rextrade]

Is there any way to use AAC Gain on a Mac?

So confused.

 

[rhythmicmoose]

There is. Actually, there's two.

First, the terminal way. The instructions here are pretty good: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...&query=aacgain. Put the aacgain unix executable file somewhere useful. I put mine in the Applications folder. To use it, I launch Terminal type "/Applications/aacgain -a -p -t -k " then go to the Finder, drag and drop the folder of the album I'm gaining onto the terminal window, then add "*.m4a" after the directory name. So, for example, "/Applications/aacgain -a -p -t -k ~/Desktop/Axis\ Of\ Love/*.m4a" would aacgain (as an album) all of the aac files in the folder Axis Of Love on my desktop.

I prefer that method, but if you're not comfortable with unix or the Terminal, there's also the GUI way. Just grab this program: http://homepage.mac.com/beryrinaldo/...on/MacMP3Gain/. The interface is a bit confusing and it doesn't give you the same kind of feedback that using the Terminal does (the Terminal will tell you by exactly how much it's gaining the files... this doesn't), but it'll get the job done without you having to get your hands dirty.

 

[DJ LUCiTE]

Here's a 3rd way ^_^

Get http://www.polonus.csv.pl/AACGain_wi...nesScripts.zip

That will install iTunes scripts for AACGaining. Once you restart iTunes, a new Script menu will appear to the left of the Help menu. If you click it, you'll see a few choices, but most notably, "AACGain selected songs."
You can select any (or all) of your songs in iTunes and click that menu, and it'll AACGain them automatically for you. (Keep in mind that iTunes does freeze while it's AACGaining, but it is working. Doing your entire library at once can take some time as well.

Once the songs are AACGained, the comments will read "AACGained." This is useful because you can use that in smart playlists; for example, I have a "To AACGain" smart playlist in which it's set to include all songs that the comments do not include "AACGained," so I can AACGain them before I transfer them to my iPod.

 

[rextrade]

Great, thanks. I'm pretty computer illiterate, so hopefully it'll make sense when I get in front of my computer.

I re-ripped a bunch of my collection with Lame to use MP3Gain, and Lame is god-awfully slow on my computer.

 

[Big Fella]

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Originally Posted by rextrade I re-ripped a bunch of my collection with Lame to use MP3Gain, and Lame is god-awfully slow on my computer.

As did I, I settled on aac 320, sounded best out of all the bitrates I tried, I am re-ripping my entire cd collection and the time eac takes compared to difference in quality (320 aac sounded better than 320 lame) left me using itunes at this setting.

 

[paulypaul]

Quote:

In case anyone is interested.

Download and install mp3gain here. Go here. Choose AACGain (last choice under AAC Encoders). Download it. Open it. Double click AACGain. Extract All. Right click on the icon titled aacgain and rename it to mp3gain. Copy that file into your mp3gain folder. It will prompt you to replace. Choose YES. Then you are done.

 
Thanks. Works Great