I usually add track and album replaygain tags as I rip each album using Foobar "treat songs as a single album" action.
However, I had loads of older albums ripped before I started to do this, and probably a load where I'd simply forgotton to do it. So I loaded all of my music into Foobar, which displayed the music grouped by %album%. I then performed an action to add replaygain tags grouping albums based on tags. I realise now that this by default doesn't do what I would have expected it to do. It doesn't use the display grouping, it uses it's own advanced setting to describe what it should consider to be grouped as an album. This was something like "%album artist% | %date% | %album%". So, this is a bit of a warning for others that apply replaygain tags using Foobar, based on tags. It's fine for normal albums (all songs by the same artist or with album artist tags, having the same year tag). For albums that have songs with different dates, they will be treated as several mini-albums (applies album replay gain info for each group of songs in the same year). I've now realised that I'm going to have to re-apply replaygain to loads of albums, and wondering what the best way to do it will be. I will probably develop a SQL query to find all songs on albums that don't have consistent album replaygain values. This could be turned into a playlist, which I could then load into Foobar to re-apply the replaygain tags again, done properly, to that sub-set of my library. It's not particularly easy to work out how to automate this to work in all cases. I will configure Foobar to apply replaygain album tags grouped by "%album artist% | %album%" (i.e. remove %date%). However: 1. I don't want to apply album replaygain info for songs that are not on albums (i.e. don't have an album tag). Foobar will treat all non-album tags as one album. 2. My compilation albums don't have album artist tags, so "%album artist% | %album%" would instead group by the each unique artist on the album. I'll either have to add album artist tags (naff) and then also add compilation=1 tags, or manually apply replaygain tags on each of those compilation albums (applying with "treat as single album" mode). -- Philip Meyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip Meyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=95 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57543 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
