MadScientist;492212 Wrote: > From a purist point of view, does adding RG metadata via Foobar have any > sound quality consequences? > > MS
Adding the tags has of course no consequence at all (they're just tags). When using them, it all depends on the degree of purism :) Some people claim the digital volume has to be fixed at 100%. If you belong to that group, RG is a no no. I almost always play complete albums, so only album gain is used. The effect of RG is essentially that the digital volume is adjusted according to the Replay Gain value; in general this means it is set lower. With albums with positive Replay Gain, the volume is set higher (which will of course not work if the volume is set at 100%). The applied positive gain can be lower than the RG tag requires: with some discs applying the complete RG would result in clipping. On the Web UI this is mentioned (something like RG: x.x, adjusted to x.x). Like others, I'm very happy with RG; in general it works great. But like cliveb said, it does not adjust the volume within an album (when using Album gain) or a track (when using track gain). Any purist would'nt mind this, because adjusting the volume there would ruin the music and would only be acceptable for the given example of car driving. Purists surely should avoid playing a Mahler symphony or the mentioned cd 'Amused to Death' in a car. [Can't you see / it all makes perfect sense / expressed in dollars and cents / and shillings and pence ... (has the monkey ever reached the garden of Eden?)] Teus -- Teus de Jong ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Teus de Jong's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15415 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72031 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
