--- Mark Lanctot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All the more reason to switch to FLAC now that it allows altering the > reference level.
not so fast! :) just so everything is clear: FLAC's replaygain support is just a tag. it is not altering the stream in any way like mp3gain does for mp3. with FLAC it is up to the player to interpret the tag and alter the level. so the new reference tag just tells you what reference level the analysis was done against. if you change the tag, it will only confuse the correct play level because the other gain tags are based on analysis at the original level. it is possible to create an analyzer that does use a different level and use that to rescan a FLAC file, and update the tags. but I don't know of any such thing yet. also, I don't know of any player that interprets the reference level. ideally the player would also have a "player reference level" (say 89dB) and if it saw such an re-analyzed FLAC stream by some as-yet- undeveloped tool at 83dB, it would change the replaygain value by 6dB for playback. but no player I know does this either. what I think is more likely to happen is that everything will just use 89dB as a reference and players should effect users' preferences with a preamp option, which most (all?) players already have. whew! Josh ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
