NORMALIZE-MP3(1)

📦 version 0.7.7, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NORMALIZE-MP3 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to normalize-mp3(1), a page from the General Commands Manual ✨ this one is short, sweet, and absolutely does the most with your audio files. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

normalize-mp3 — adjust levels of mp3 or ogg files by running normalize-audio(1), then re-encoding 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

normalize-mp3 [OPTION]... [FILE]...
normalize-ogg [OPTION]... [FILE]...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Normalize volume of mp3 or ogg files by decoding, running normalize, and re-encoding. it's giving pipeline, it's giving glow-up for your volume levels 🌈

this requires as much extra disk space as the largest mp3 or ogg file, decoded. yes bestie, decoded. the whole thing. plan accordingly 😭

⚠️ note that for batch and mix mode, all files must be decoded, so there must be enough disk space for the decoded copies of all specified mp3 and ogg files. like, all of them. every single one. do a vibe check on your free space before you commit, fr fr 💀

here come the options, bestie 👑

  • --ogg — Convert files to OGG, regardless of original format
  • --mp3 — Convert files to MP3, regardless of original format
  • --bitrate BR — Set bitrate of re-encoded file (default 128)
  • --tmpdir TMP — Put temporary WAV files in temp directory TMP
  • --notags — Do not copy ID3 or OGG tags to the output file

okay so the following four options may be used to set the encoder and decoder commands for mp3 and ogg vorbis ✨ and here's the cute part:

  • %m is expanded to the name of the mp3 or vorbis file
  • %w expands to the name of the temporary WAV file
  • %b expands to the bitrate, as specified by the --bitrate option

Run normalize-mp3 with no arguments to see the default values 👀 (yes, literally just run it with nothing, it'll spill the tea)

  • --mp3encode=X — mp3 encoder
  • --mp3decode=X — mp3 decoder
  • --oggencode=X — ogg vorbis encoder
  • --oggdecode=X — ogg vorbis decoder
  • -h — Display this help and exit.
  • -V — Display version information and exit.

and then these arguments are passed as arguments to normalize-audio 🫶 Run normalize-audio --help for more info, iykyk.

  • -a AMP
  • -g ADJ
  • -n
  • -T THR
  • -b
  • -m
  • -v
  • -q

no descriptions here bestie, they just get handed straight over to normalize-audio like a lil relay race 🏃♀️💨

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

Report bugs to <chrisvaill@gmail.com>.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

The normalize-audio(1) Man page

📝 NOTES 📝

This page was provided by Eduardo Maçan <macan@debian.org>

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💅 September 2001, NORMALIZE-MP3(1), that's the source and date bestie — now go normalize something and be the main character of your own playlist 🎀🦋✨

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