alstein;269571 Wrote: 
> Thanks. Everything seems to be working well. However I am a bit confused
> by the volume options. When I went to settings on the SB3 it showed the
> volume set at 50. Now there was another volume setting called "volume
> adjustment", which was set to "no volume adjustment". I assumed that
> the volume setting of 50 was meaningless since the volume adjustment
> was set to "no". However when I pressed the volume on the SB remote,
> the setting began to move higher, and so did the actual loudness of the
> music playing. I increased it to 100, and then adjusted the volume of my
> audio receiver to compensate. BTW, the SB3 is connected via toslink to
> my receiver. I assumed that if the volume adjustment on the SB3 was set
> to "no", then I was bypassing the volume control entirely on the SB3. Is
> there a setting that needs to be looked at?This refers to a different sort of 
> volume adjustment: replay gain. Some
tracks are louder (or quieter) than others. This can be annoying if,
for example, you are playing a random selection and you turn the volume
up for a quiet track only to be blasted by a loud one following it. Some
rippers and many music player/management tools (e.g. foobar2000) can
analyse a track (and a whole album) and note its average and peak
loudness. The results can be stored in tags on the file. If you have
Volume adjustment set to off on the SB it will ignore these tags (but
have no effect on the volume controls). You can, however, set Volume
Adjustment to "track" which means that the volume of the playing track
is adjusted up or down based on its replay gain tags so that everything
has the same average volume. You can also set this to album (uses the
album tag but relative volume of tracks from the same album is
maintained) or "smart" which will guess whether you are playing
individual tracks (and use track gain) or tracks from an album if there
are a number from the same album consecutively (and use album gain).

Hope that makes some sense.


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