Chris,
You should be careful what you ask for. Unless there is silence
between every track, multiple replay gain values during playback will
cause an abrupt volume change at the track marker, depending upon how
the player implements replay gain. You may have a collection of CDs
where there is always silence between tracks, but many CDs have a few
songs that bleed together, perhaps even the entire album is one
continuous piece. Computing separate replay gain values on a group
of tracks that are together in one file can backfire on you in
certain cases.
Another thing to consider is that nearly 100% of albums are mastered
so that all the songs have compatible volume levels. This is another
reason to treat the entire CD with one replay gain. The mastering
engineer may make the entire CD louder or softer than average, but
the individual songs should already be matched. Of course, there are
exceptions. A greatest hits CD or especially an unauthorized
collection of songs probably won't be mastered correctly due to
laziness or lack of budget.
i.e. There is not one "correct use" for all CDs.
Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting
On Feb 11, 2008, at 06:40, Christopher Brown wrote:
On Feb 11, 2008 1:03 AM, Christopher Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there a way to correctly use the replay-gain feature on flac files
that contain an entire album (i.e., multiple tracks with
seekpoints added
from a
cue sheet)?
As I understand it, flac generates replay-gain values for each flac
file that
you pass (it assumes they are each a track and that they comprise an
album),
along with album values. If you pass a flac file that contains an entire
album (multiple tracks), it treats it as an album with only a single
track.
In other words, flac's replay-gain feature doesn't seem to know about
cue
sheets and/or multiple tracks in a single flac file. I would like to use
replay-gain to equate each track, which is what I meant by 'correctly
use'.
Of course, I may be completely mistaken on several fronts.
--
Chris
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