slimkid;165438 Wrote: > > And, BTW, replaygain will change the volume of the track (even > digitally, but that is being debated in different topic), so in my > prior example, dynamic difference between first and second movement > will be changed (decreased), which is messing with Karajan's intentions > :)
Thats why there is trackgain and albumgain (and "smart gain" to recognize when to use each). Take an album we all know: Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. You wouldnt want the clocks in Time to be turned down as "too loud" and Us and Them turned up to be just as loud... that would, well, suck. But you would want to have it about as loud as other albums so you didnt have to mess with volume control all the time. So AlbumGain (or SmartGain) would decide if the peak of the album was too high or low and adjust all tracks equally. TrackGain is for when you are playing a playlist and some songs were mastered by deaf people who believe that everything should be set to 11, even quiet songs... It makes all the tracks roughly the same range. Yes, that can be evil in some cases, but it is okay for "i want a party mix and am getting annoyed at futzing with the volume all the time" To do gain right, you really need track and album gain and ideally SmartGain so you dont have to keep futzing with which is right (though it can guess wrong..) In theory it should work. That said: I am lazy and use the volume control, so as usual, I really don't care what you use on your system. :P -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30898 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
