SuperQ;460433 Wrote: > If you're talking about the bug that causes replay-gain clipping, that's > not what I was talking about. I know that bug was fixed. > > What I'm talking about is when you use replay gain and you have quiet > tracks with peaks there is no "headroom" for replay gain if you have the > volume set to 100. Lowering the volume a bit gives replay-gain room to > boost quiet tracks without clipping. Ah you sure it does that on Squeezeboxes? The design of ReplayGain does include the possibility that if you're using digital attenuation then you can take advantage of the headroom created when applying positive RG gains, but my understanding is that the way the Squeezebox bug was fixed didn't include that. As far as I am aware, positive RG gain values are scaled back if necessary purely according to the RG peak value - no account is taken of what the playback device's digital attenuation happens to be.
Someone else (sorry, I forget who) made the valid observation that if you do take account of digital attenuation when applying positive RG gain, you can end up with the rather peculiar behaviour that as you further adjust the digital volume control, there would be no change in playback level. So in some sense the fact that Squeezeboxes don't do this could be regarded as desirable. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68090 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
