Just tried r4356 v6.2 beta and Replay Gain works great. I can now fast forward and reverse again (redundant transcoding removed). This along with the multiple artists in comments makes a great upgrade to SB2. Thanks to Slim and anyone else that's helped with v6.2 - it is appreciated.
I’ve noticed some things, though: 1. Replay Gain with Softsqueeze. This doesn’t appear to work but I seem to remember reading (can’t find the thread) that this is a known issue that requires SS to be updated. 2. Using Exbrowse2, the links from a track information page don't work. "Artist", "Album" & "Genre" show as links but when you click on them you get a script error. Clicking on the "Artist" link gives: Line: 37 Char: 1 Error: Object expected Code: 0 URL: http://localhost:9000/ExBrowse2/songinfo.html?item=8118&player=<MAC address here> Also on the track information page, the link to the file doesn't download the file - it launches another track information page within the same frame. I guess if Exbrowse2 is being replaced with Exbrowse3 this won’t matter. Oh yes, this was with IE6 on WinXP SP2 and Opera 8 on WinXP SP2. The default skin works fine but Exbrowse3 is broken too. Clearing the database and browser cache doesn’t fix it. 3. I’d previously used MP3Gain to analyse and apply gain to the both the data and metadata (APE tags). Looking at the SlimServer web interface, the gain for each MP3 was less than 1.5 dB – much less that the -7 – -10 dB modern music needs to lower the level down to -89 dB. It took me a while to realise that when MP3Gain is used, even through the resolution of the data adjustment is -+ 1.5 dB, MP3Gain still adds a track and album gain metadata to correct this coarse -+ 1.5 dB adjustment to the exact gain – hence the small RG values. I’ve now undone the data adjustment using MP3Gain, leaving the APE tags for SlimServer to read. Both ways works fine - I just preferred to have the MP3s back to their original state. 4. I don’t know if Slimserver can handle this but I think Foobar uses TXXX ID3v2 tags when writing RG information, when it’s configured not to write APE tags. If it can write APE tags, it will. I don’t use Foobar to Replay Gain MP3s (but do for FLACs but that’s another matter) but I didn’t see anything on the checkins list to suggest that TXXX tags were supported (does anyone use them for RG?), so I thought I'd mention it. -- NigelMSB _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
