Can I just add a note of caution here? Everybody is suggesting that you use ReplayGain to equalise the loudness levels of your albums, and that's fine - I use it myself.
HOWEVER... if an album is very quiet because it has a large dynamic range, then what you'll probably end up with is a fairly large positive ReplayGain value which if applied directly during playback could cause the peaks in the album to be clipped. Some media players understand this danger and take note of the "peak" value as well as the "gain" value set by ReplayGain, and where appropriate back off the amount of gain so that no clipping occurs. Unfortunately at present the Squeezebox firmware does NOT do this. I reported this as a bug some months ago (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5119), and the latest update from Slim Devices is that they will take a look at it after 7.0 is released. In the meantime I manually update the MySQL database to reduce the gain settings accordingly where they would cause clipping. The SQL required to do this is detailed in my bug report. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41450 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
