I know over on Dynamic Range Day, or another Ian Shepherd site, he demonstrated the output of a radio processor on various levels of mastered tracks, but that was an professional radio (expensive) tool if I remember. Something that kinda crushes the musics dynamics (and EQ) to really equalise them. ĭoes anyone know of an effect that does what radio stations use. I've found a few free VST compressors that aren't heavy on resources and do get the job done to some degree, but I must employ ReplayGain in conjunction to get the songs in the right ball park for the compressor to have any success.įL4TT3RY 2 (Bus Compressor) seems quite good, even if this isn't the specific purpose. I had a look at VST effects, as I've had success with the VST wrapper 2.4 before, when using Voxengo plugins. If a song has just a bass for a few bars at the start, then the drums come in, the level drops dramatically. There's one that is bundled with a bunch of other effects, but it suffers from being inconsistent. So I looked into dynamic compressors to run as a Foobar2000 DSP effect. ReplayGain works to some extent, however, some tracks which have particularly dynamic swings, tend not to work too well with just a simple track level change. But the problem is getting the volume/loudness/level equalised.

We want to play the entire music library in random/shuffle, like a radio station.

OK, so we got a Win7 Atom n2600 netbook, shoved Foobar2000 on it and am in the process of plonking WMA 320kbs files on it, from the main music library.

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