LeifPederson;380929 Wrote: > I had a hard time figuring out just what was happening with the replay > gain and SqueezeCenter. I thought there were bugs in the software > tools I was using to set gain. I experimented and found out that SC > will look at iTunes comments fields to get the volume info and then > somehow add on to that the REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN tags as well. So if > both were negative values, the volume could be VERY quiet. > > I use MP3Tag and I added columns to display the REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN > field and the iTunes comment fields (forgot what the actual field name > is). I added replay gain tags by using foobar2000. I have a > combination of MP3's and FLAC files, and this tool works well for me > (18,000+ tracks and growing). > > Once I figured out that SC somehow combined iTunes gain with the > REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN tag, I sorted my huge collection of tracks by the > comment field that iTunes uses and then deleted ALL the iTunes comments. > I don't trust iTunes to do the right thing and I am fine with > separating out my iTunes library from my Transporter/SC library. > > This behavior and experimenting was done about a year ago so it might > be the case that SC has since been fixed. IMHO, SC should utilize ONLY > the REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN tags for replay gain if they exist, and if > not, then use ONLY the iTunes volume check information. But under no > circumstances should it use both. > > If you need help trying to figure all this out or to duplicate my > earlier experiments, I'd be happy to help out. > > Leif
Vote for http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4362 -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta) Stored: Boom (PQP1 - early beta), SBC (beta - no battery) Sold: SB3, Duet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57672 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
