On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:05:46 -0700, exile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >another newbie question: do all of my flac files need to be labeled in >a unix friendly manner (i.e. - any and all gaps/punctuation replaced >with an underscore.) > >i noticed that my metaflac command line for replay gain will only work >if my flac files are labeled in the previous manner. > >also, the metaflac command line for replay gain applies album gain to >tracks but it doesn't seem to apply track gain. is that correct? and >will the applied replay gain be saved in the file? it seems as though >on a rescan of the music folders some of the replay gain settings get >blown out.
On my Mac (Intel mini w/10.4) I didn't need to clean up the file names. I have spaces and punctuation all over the place. Specifying *.flac on the metaflac command line works just fine for me. In fact I just now tried it on my OpenBSD server and it works fine there too. Metaflac doesn't alter the music file with the gain info. It writes tags to the file that have the gain values in them and it's up to the player to apply the appropriate gain values during playback. As such, it's possible to have multiple gain tags. If you run metaflac against a single file it will only write out the track gain. It might also write out an album gain tag identical to the track gain, I'm not sure. If you run metaflac against multiple files at the same time it will assume they are all one album and it will write both track and album gain tags in each file. I suggest you try out the program Tag at http://sbooth.org/Tag/ so you can take a look at the flac tags and verify that you're getting what you want. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
