Mark Lanctot;171607 Wrote: 
> Good catch, and sorry for the misinformation.  Also sorry it leaves you
> without any solution!
No problem ! And not without 'any' solution, considering I can manually
edit values with foobar. ;)
This simply isn't the easiest way, but the albums that need further
adjustment are not that numerous.

BTW, having lowered the tag values by 2dB (results from MP3Gain in the
first place) for one particular CD with foobar, I reloaded the files in
MP3Gain, analysed again, and the funny thing is it understood the new
values, but somehow believing they were its own results, it showed a
new 'initial volume' 2dB higher than the real one. It obviously
considered that, the analysis being already done, given the new tag
values AND the fixed reference level, the raw track level must have
been louder.

I hadn't a chance yet to try if SS indeed plays the songs at lower
volume, but this should work allright, its calculation being 'real raw
level' minus 'new tag gain value'.

Quite a boring reply, but writing this down does confort my point of
view and ease my mind!


Mark Lanctot;171607 Wrote: 
> All the more reason to switch to FLAC now that it allows altering the
> reference level.

Well, having quite a large library, and wanting to keep it very
portable (with a bit of lazyness to rescan the whole dam' dusty bunch
o'CDs on top of that), I'll stick to my (224 to 360) mp3 files.
Untill the Day has come, who knows.

Josh Coalson;171732 Wrote: 
> 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.

Is that not also true for mp3 files being only tagged with analysis
values, the gain not being 'applied' ?

Josh Coalson;171732 Wrote: 
> 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.

OK, so anyway altering this ref value alone wouldn't do the trick
either.

Thanks anyway to you all for helping my global understanding of these
concepts !


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