cliveb;370324 Wrote: > Hang on a minute. My reading of what you've said here suggests to me > that you're proposing that the server should apply ReplayGain to the > audio samples prior to sending it to the players. If I've > misunderstaood what you're saying, my apologies. If however that is > what you're saying, then this is absolutely, unequivocally the wrong > way to do it. The audio samples *must* be sent to each player > unmolested, for a variety of reasons: > > 1. Some players might have ReplayGain enabled, others not. Some may > want to use track gain, others album gain. You can't apply the > ReplayGain at the server end once for all clients. > 2. The ReplayGain adjustment (which is done in the digital domain) > should be applied after the signal has been widened to 24 bits within > the player (in order to preserve resolution). If it's done in the > server, you'd have to widen it to 24 bits, which might involve > on-the-fly decoding to WAV, widening and either re-encoding back to > FLAC or acceptance of increased network bandwidth requirements. > 3. Some of us run SqueezeCenter on low-power servers, which may not > have the CPU available to perform all this stuff at the server. > 4. There may be some more reasons I've not thought of.
Clive is correct (i think) when this works i plan to maybe put it into use on my kitchen player but not my hifi player. -- Mnyb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30316 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
