config default media player
 

hi, I think this question should be on the newbie forum, but what the €@//)

I like the default media player for the n800 but I can't find the config file file so I can boost the volume.
if anybody could help me on this, I will really appreciate it.

I will to try this line on the config file (works well for the Mplayer) so I can boost the volume

af=volume=1:0

or

softvolume-max=150

please correct me if I am wrong

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Then, if I may ask, why didn't you post it there?
Well, since the built-in media player is NOT mplayer, it seems that lines working well for mplayer has approximately 0% chance of working well for this.

I recommend using mp3gain on your files, or using a media player that is actually configurable.

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thanks, searching in the forums I kind of find that solutions, another media player should work for me,

and I can't use mp3gain because I listen to classical music.

But thanks.

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The genre of music you listen to controls what software you can use?
That makes absolutely no sense.

I should hope you're aware that mp3gain is a lossless transformation?

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for me, mp3gain, yes, it makes a transformation of the music it self.
Already tried.

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It factually does not cause loss; it changes the global gain field only, and changes that uniformly for all frames, which is a completely linear and reversible effect. It cannot cause any distortion or degradation; if upon using it, your music actually has audible degradation, one of the following applies:

• The degradation was already present, but you could not hear it because the file was too loud.
• The degradation is caused by clipping, etc., from playing back sound that loud with the system.

In either of these cases, using any other soft-volume control to get the same volume level will reveal the same distortion.

A more likely explanation is the placebo effect. ABX testing is the best way to eliminate that.

Edit: Clarifying my original comment: Nobody wants to do lossy stuff on their music library, regardless of genre.

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Besson you are totally right. maybe is a placebo effect. but altering 15gb of Mp3, is to much time I can waste waiting.

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mp3gain will operate in batch mode, and even write out a log of what it has done. I use it all the time as I'm adding to my collection on my mythTV server. You can run it overnight and probably finish the whole lot.

15GB of mp3 is "chump change" in regards to the file processing. my /music directory currently contains 82.65GB of mp3 files (and that's only 22,374 mp3 files; it'll be far more than that [I currently have about 5 times that many, waiting to be fixed up and added] when I've completed adding the music files to my mythTV box).

NB: for the curious - I am assembling a collection that will contain, at a minimum, every song that ever entered the Billboard Hot 100 charts. At present, I have all of the #1's and #2's, and any other released singles by artists who placed at least one single at #1 or #2, on the system. I also have all the released singles (regardless of chart placement) of several notable groups; and, for some artists, the entire body of work.

NB2: If I were to construct a playlist consisting only of what I currently have on the mythTV box, playing each song only once, it would take more than 2 months, running continuously, to reach the end of the playlist.

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"for the curious"; that's me!

That's quite a collection; do you actually intend to listen to it on a regular basis, or is it a "just because it's there" thing?

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I not only intend to use it, but already do! I've got a bunch of "smart playlists" set up in my mythTV system that read/interpret the id3 tags, so I can tell the system to assemble an on-the-fly playlist consisting of songs that hit the Billboard charts betwen July 1968 and November 1971, and reached a position on the chart higher than #15, but never reached #1, for instance, and then play random selections from that list without repeating any. :)

...I've also got some scripts set up so that I can transfer the list contents to one of my mp3 players or to an SD card, so I can load up and take some tunes on the road...

:D