I have a fairly large collection of CDs ripped to flac files. I use Sqeezebox Dual to serve/play these files through my home theater audio system. My listening habits are that I mostly listen to random mix playlists and only occaisionaly listen to entire albums. In this context randon means that the tracks within the playlist will come from many different CDs and will be played in no particular order.
I have noticed, when playing songs from my collection, that the volume is all over the place. Some tracks will be so soft that they can barely be heard while others are VERY loud at the same amplifier volume setting. After doing some reading I have realized that what I need is to apply ReplayGain tags to my library. However I am unclear as to how to best do this to accomplish my goals and am hoping that somebody here can help. What I would like to do is to write ReplayGain tags to the flac files that would work for both listening modes. It seems to me that for random play, track gain is the way to go while album gain (where album is defined as single piece of work not neccesarily a single physical disc) would be ideal for listening to whole albums. Can anyone tell me what tool to use to write ReplaGain tags to suit those needs? It would also be nice if you could point me at a tutorial on using the suggested tool for this task. Secondly how should I set SqueezeCenter up to use these tags? Would I need to change the volume normalization method for each listening session or can this be set to use album gain tags when playing an entire album but use the track gain tags when playing from a random mix? Thanks for your help, Steve -- sredmyer Steve Redmyer www.RipitDigital.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sredmyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23527 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60971 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
