From: "street_samurai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I just wanted to write a brief post to say how much I'm missing Replaygain support in Slimserver. I've seen the bug reports/enhancement requestes and I've voted on them... I'm not sure what priority this feature has right now... but I write this to help bolster support for including this feature soon.
I opened bug report 1311. I fully understand what replay gain is.
I just wanted to point out that replay gain support *IS* available today with the SlimServer, and I'm using it today.
Bug 1311 calls for the FLAC decoder in the Squeezebox2 to natively interpret replay gain tags. Without this, even though the SB2 understands FLAC files, you must transcode to the SB2 if you want/need replay gain. The reason: The FLAC decoder on my O/S understands replay gain, but the hardware decoder in the SB2 does not. So, in the end, I still have replay gain. I just can't use the native FLAC decoder on the SB2 - I must transcode.
For MP3GAIN (at least the old MP3GAIN I used to use when I still used MP3): This actually modifies the sound volume in the MP3 source file. It looks like it now adds some tags to more easily undo what it has done. But if this is the same program: If you run MP3GAIN over your MP3 files, since the volume in the MP3 file has changed, the Slimserver will behave the way you want.
End result: You can get replay gain support in FLAC today and MP3. For MP3, just run MP3GAIN, set it up for either album or song mode normalization, and you're set. For FLAC, customize the conversion file to include the --apply-replaygain-which-is-not-lossless=a qualifier, and you're set.
Hope this clarifies,
-- Jeff _______________________________________________
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