Grip: normalizing between ripping and encoding (with lame) does nothing.

[Adam Funk]

On 2007-04-05, Adam Funk wrote:

> For years on Debian [1] and Ubuntu I've had this problem --- grip
> ignores (as far as I can tell) whatever I put in the normalize field
> of the Config -> Rip -> Options tab.  I've tried
> "/usr/bin/normalize-audio -a -20dB" as well as adding the
> %stuff%stuff.wav to the end of that box.  The commands I'm trying to
> use work on their own from xterm on the files, but when I try to
> normalize tracks within grip the resulting *.wav and *.mp3 files end
> up at the unnormalized volume: grip appears to ignore the command
> completely.
>
> Does anyone know how to fix this?  (I'm quite open to the suggestion
> that I'm doing something wrong!)

I finally figured this out (with help from the grip-users list).  The
correct command to go in
  Config -> Rip -> Options "Wav filter command"
is
  /usr/bin/normalize-audio -a -20dB %w

Hope this helps someone else.