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Originally Posted by ArrowHead

Use foobar2000 and replaygain the files before diskwriting/encoding to WAV/MP3.

How do I do this?

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Nevermind, figured it out.

Originally Posted by Lady Miyomi

How do I do this?

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Nevermind, figured it out.

Also most good plugins have a pre-amp for volume amplification, set that to a desireable volume if you still use Winamp.

So, turning the volume up in Winamp would make it sound louder before I convert it?

Originally Posted by Lady Miyomi

So, turning the volume up in Winamp would make it sound louder before I convert it?

Not exactly what I'm talking about. If your plugins don't support a preamp in the plugins, just move all the sliders on your equalizer up evenly until you achive your desired loudness.

Originally Posted by www.sega.co.jp

Not exactly what I'm talking about. If your plugins don't support a preamp in the plugins, just move all the sliders on your equalizer up evenly until you achive your desired loudness.

Not necessarily a good idea, as it can introduce clipping if you're not very careful about it.

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To "replaygain" files in foobar2000, just select them from its window, right-click and go ReplayGain > Scan selection as…

Originally Posted by ArrowHead

Not necessarily a good idea, as it can introduce clipping if you're not very careful about it.

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To "replaygain" files in foobar2000, just select them from its window, right-click and go ReplayGain > Scan selection as…

Yeah, but Lady Miyomi's GSF files are only natively playable in Winamp (you can play them in foobar2000 0.8.3, but it requires a Winamp plugin wrapper). You could then edit the spit out wav files and apply Replaygain to them to delete the clipping.

Originally Posted by www.sega.co.jp

Yeah, but Lady Miyomi's GSF files are only natively playable in Winamp (you can play them in foobar2000 0.8.3, but it requires a Winamp plugin wrapper). You could then edit the spit out wav files and apply Replaygain to them to delete the clipping.

This is exactly what I've been doing and it works perfect! Thank you both!

Originally Posted by www.sega.co.jp

Yeah, but Lady Miyomi's GSF files are only natively playable in Winamp (you can play them in foobar2000 0.8.3, but it requires a Winamp plugin wrapper). You could then edit the spit out wav files and apply Replaygain to them to delete the clipping.

Nope. Clipping in WAV files is unrepairable.

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Originally Posted by Lady Miyomi

This is exactly what I've been doing and it works perfect! Thank you both!

If only it worked.

It doesn't - as I just posted above, replaygain won't fix clipped WAV files.

I've been using Winamp to convert them to WAV and then some other program to convert them to MP3. Winamp's MP3 plugin freezes after a few conversions and won't work anymore. I use replaygain on the MP3s. It works for me that way. That's what I was talking about.

Originally Posted by ArrowHead

Nope. Clipping in WAV files is unrepairable.

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If only it worked.

It doesn't - as I just posted above, replaygain won't fix clipped WAV files.

It's a convoluted path but here goes:
1. Convert your files in Winamp to wav (or some other lossless format)
2. Go into foobar2000 v0.8.3
3. Scan the files for Replaygain (don't worry if they can't have Replaygan applied to them, the database will save the RG values
4. Open up the preferences
5. Go to the Playback options and make sure the following option is checked:

6. Go to the diskwriter preferences and make sure the following option is checked:

7. Then covert the file to any format you please, the files will have the clipping cut off and Replaygain applied.

That'll work.

I'm specifically asking about NSF and GBS files. Is there any way to split them into individual NSF or GBS tracks? If so, how do I do it?

Originally Posted by Lady Miyomi

I'm specifically asking about NSF and GBS files. Is there any way to split them into individual NSF or GBS tracks? If so, how do I do it?

I don't know if you'll like this method or if you can even use it, but what I do is use NotSoFatso with Winamp. I convert an NSF to an NSFE through NotSoFatso. Then, I make one copy of the NSFE file for each track I wish to have. I open up each NSFE in NotSoFatso and edit the playlist so it only plays a single track. When you're done, you should have a bunch of NSFE files, each with a different, singular track. You may have to tweak some other playback settings (such as hiding the track selection window, as it will be useless), but I think that's about it.

Not sure what to do with GBS...

I've heard tips that if you open up an NSF or GBS file in Sony Sound Forge, that you can edit them from there. Just highlight a part of the track, use CTRL+X, and then open a new window and paste it there. You should have two files - one being the original NSF without one of the tracks, and the other file being what you cut and pasted.

Of course, you'd have to do this for every track in the NSF or GBS. However, I haven't tried this out myself yet, but I got this information from Kairyu.

Originally Posted by Blue_Kirby2

I've heard tips that if you open up an NSF or GBS file in Sony Sound Forge, that you can edit them from there. Just highlight a part of the track, use CTRL+X, and then open a new window and paste it there. You should have two files - one being the original NSF without one of the tracks, and the other file being what you cut and pasted.

Of course, you'd have to do this for every track in the NSF or GBS. However, I haven't tried this out myself yet, but I got this information from Kairyu.

You forgot the first part of the instruction; which is to first convert the NSF or GBS file into a wav file. Most of the time I use winamp to accomplish this. After that you should be able to open the file in Sony Sound Forge.

So, does it make one big wav file or does it know to separate the files?

Originally Posted by Lady Miyomi

So, does it make one big wav file or does it know to separate the files?

Running it through winamp's diskwriter will make the NSF/GBS file into one big wav file. So I've been spliting the tracks the way Blue_Kirby2 mentioned. I suppose there is a faster way of doing this but my way does work =).