Josh Coalson;171732 Wrote: > --- Mark Lanctot > <Mark.Lanctot.2kmf7z1169148601 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com> > 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
Ah, OK, yes it's quite clear now. And this makes a lot of sense, I was wondering what would happen if you modified the reference loudness tag - without rescanning and recalculating ReplayGain, it doesn't mean anything. And as you mentioned there aren't even any tools yet to recalculate ReplayGain based on an alternate reference value. -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20746 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
