Having read all this I have no doubt at all that your best bet is to use Foobar2000 to add ReplayGain tags to your files.
I am with you. I hate the changes in volume levels so I have implemented ReplayGain using Foobar. It is simple and painless and works perfectly with SBS. I suggest you have had a bad experience with ReplayGain in the past due to the software you used previously. Foobar will only add Replaygain tags to your files. It will not change the audio data one iota. You can then set your chosen player to read the ReplayGain tags or not. You can load up your whole library into Foobar, select all, right click and choose the ReplayGain setting that suits you (probably Albums by Tags if your files are tagged well enough) and then leave it overnight to analyse and write the tag to all your files (you need to make sure that you have set ReplayGain to actually write the tag to the file and not just analyse the file). If you have any worries copy a small sub-set of your music librarty first and try it out on them. Then use the Smart Gain setting in SBS when playing back. You'll never have to reset the volume again. There is no better option than this. BTW. I also use crossfade. the SBS crossfade setting works fine for me, even with five hardware players synchronised. Best to get some sleep before you try it though. You don't want to select your whole library and hit delete by mistake. :-) MC -- ModelCitizen Think the third party Squeeze plugins and applets are important? Then 'vote for bug 14194' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14194) so more can be made. Last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72031 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
