Pros and Cons. It's not more meaningful either way. What you get is an average per disc, and not an average per album. I believe that for albums distributed on two disks, it should be album replaygain should be calculated as an average of all tracks on an album. Double albums used to be distributed as 4 sides on vinyl - I wouldn't normalise across for sets of tracks on the album.
It's irrelevant whether double-disk albums are ripped with disc numbers or as one album with contiguous track numbers if "treat multi-disk albums as one album" is enabled. The effect will be that there will only be one album replaygain value. If you rip with the disc number in the album name, or treat multi-disk albums as separate albums, you will have one album replaygain value per disk from that album. >imagine if you had a 10 disc album, which is kinda what moonbase was >saying... you could have a LOT of varience disc to disc that you are >trying to compensate for with one single RG value for all discs. > I rip those with a volume number in the album title, because they are generally not single albums, but collections of albums. eg. I have a multi-disk collection by Klaus Schulze called "Jubilee Edition" that is 25 disks. I haven't ripped that one yet, but when I do, I will rip as 25 albums called "Jubilee Edition Volume 01 - Tradition & Vision", "Jubilee Edition Volume 02 - Avec Arthur", etc. However, "Pink Floyd - The Wall" is ripped as one album. If mastered correctly, such albums don't have much of a varience in average volume between two disks. If they did, who's to say that that is not intentional. I don't want a jump in volume between the track that happens to be at the end of disk 1 and the start of disk 2 if it's not meant to be there. Albums are albums, and tracks are tracks. Disks are largely parts of an album, and irrelevant for album normalisation. Volumes are collections of albums - each album would have album volume normalisation. Taking the averaging one step further in your way, you could forget disk album averages and just use track replaygain. One step further would be to split each track into 10ths and have an average volume per 10th of a track... that is of course nonsense, I'm just pointing out that it doesn't make more accurate volume normalisation. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
