Thanks for your prompt response, Louis. Just to clarify a couple of points...
lrossouw;552389 Wrote: > > Soundcheck values are set at a track level. Thus tracks from the same > album may be adjusted differently by itunes. If you play the album > songs after each other, relative volumes would have changed. So a soft > part of your symphony may suddenly become louder compared to the rest > (if it is in a different track). If you often listen to whole albums > this may be problematic. > Yes, this is exactly why I don't want to use Soundcheck. No point Beethoven marking is score "pianissimo" if I hear it at the same volume as a "forte" section. ;-) lrossouw;552389 Wrote: > > However if you use something like foobar2000 to set your replaygain > tags in each music file, then it stores an albumgain and track gain > value. These tags are what everyone else uses to do what soundcheck > does in itunes. SB server will then use album gain (which is set > across an album) when playing an album and it will use track gain when > playing a mix of tracks from different albums. Thus when playing an > album the relative loudness of tracks are kept as originally intended. > > If foobar2000 generates both album gain and track gain values, what option do you choose for the SBS Setting: "Volume Adjustment/Replay Gain" in the Player>Audio tab? -- Tradewind25 Geoff J. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tradewind25's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8432 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79349 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
