What John S says seems to be true. MY MP3Gain files don't normalize properly on Clementine even with the gain turned on. Any solutions out there?
On Thursday, December 26, 2013 at 2:08:42 PM UTC-6, John S wrote: > > Looks like no one in this group has experience with this issue, although I > see that Lee has an interest similar to mine. So I'll add a couple of > comments: > > I have done a considerable amount of additional research on various > forums, with no useful result. I finally broke down and took a look at the > source code for Clementine. I am certainly no code writer, so my > observations may be a bit sketchy. From what I can see at > > > http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/source/browse/ext/libclementine-tagreader/tagreader.cpp#154 > > it looks like the tag-reader module of Clementine will read Vorbis > Comments for flac files and ID3v2 tags for mp3 files. I see nothing about > reading APEv2 tags for mp3 files. > > In addition, I see nothing about reading RGAD, RVA2, or other > Replay-Gain-specific ID3v2 frames. However, TXXX frames are called out, > and these are used for ReplayGain values in the latest implementations of > ReplayGain. From this, I conclude that - if you want to use dynamic > ReplayGain adjustment during playback with Clementine, you need to write > your RG values into four TXXX frames, as key=value pairs. These are > described at > > http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=ReplayGain_1.0_specification > > and are as follows: > > Metadata > Key Value format > Track replay gain REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN > [-]a.bb dB > Peak track amplitude > REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK c.dddddd > Album replay gain REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN [-]a.bb dB > Peak album amplitude REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK c.dddddd > I'll be doing some experiments to try to prove this out. Perhaps someone > with much more expertise will clarify this before I check back in with my > results. > > > > On Saturday, December 7, 2013 1:38:50 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: >> >> I see that Clementine is able to apply ReplayGain volume adjustment. >> >> Can Clementine read RG metadata from APE v2 tags? >> >> Can Clementine read RG metadata from APE v2 tags if ID3v2 tags are also >> present? >> >> Can Clementine read RG metadata from ID3v2 tags? >> >> >> This info seems hard to come by, and trying to figure it out by >> experimenting has given me a headache. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clementine Music Player" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
