i always use smartgain too. and this is a minor point of contention, as i rarely if ever shuffle a single album for playback.
however, the differences of level, as a function of what the artists intended, are only meaningful in sequential track order. i doubt there has ever been a case where an artist cared about the relationship of the levels between track 3 and track 14 on a given album. also consider that in a random mix mode of your whole library, it is mathematically possible, (esp on smaller collections), for the random mix to bring two tracks from the same album up in the playlist back to back. in such a scenario, (and i truly don't know what SBS does under smartgain when this happens), but i would want SBS to use track gain, then album gain for the two songs if in linear, ascending track order, then track gain again. (maybe descending too, have to think about that...) if however the two songs from the same album were not next to each other, i'd want track gain applied for what i think are obvious reasons. smartgain should always use track gain on compilations, imo. album gain is really not appropriate here, since obviously there is no artist intent involved. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & droid (my home) / duet & ipeng (parents' home) - sbs 7.5.5b - win7 & xp pro sp3 ie9 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz, 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 49k+ mp3/flac ::VOTE FOR 'BUG 15604' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15604)!!!:: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87061 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
