emalvick;673686 Wrote: > For myself, I am conflicted on how I should setup ReplayGain on > multidisc albums. For instance, The Wall is an album that one could > argue should be played sequentially and acts as a continuous unit. > Should their be a different Album Gain for each disc or should the > Album Gain be based on the complete album? I don't think there is a > right or wrong answer, or the right answer is probably really dependent > on the mastering. Most of the time, I find the album gains for each > disc are close enough that they probably don't matter.
If your library option is set to 'treat multi-disc sets as a single album' and you compute album gain for each CD then you're going to only end up with one of the CD's ReplayGain album gain values stored in the database. I end up doing this because I store each disc in a separate folder and I have a script that computes album gain for each folder. Looking at the RG album gain figures for The Wall, disc 1 is -0.3dB and disc 2 is +2.26dB. The first value is the one that's stored in the LMS database for the album, so you're right that it would be better to compute album gain across both discs. > To digress further: Does the server software care that album gains are > consistent? For instance, I've put together a few personal > compilations from individual tracks I've gathered over the years and > have given them generic album titles to hold them together (I prefer > albums and album artist browsing, so I try to group those odd tracks > together). However, in those compilations, I actually set the album > gain tag equal to the track gain tag. My assumption is that when I > play the album this essentially plays the album with track gain since > the album gain is the same. But, I suppose it is possible that the > server picks up one (the first) album gain tag much like it seems to > pick up one image when looking at the album covers. Yes, the latter is what happens. The database doesn't store album gain for each individual track; it stores it only for the album, so it picks one. That means that when you play the album using either the 'album gain' or 'smart gain' player setting, the track gain from just one of the tracks will be applied to all of the others. The only way I can think of to get around this is use track gain when playing one of these albums. -- JJZolx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91551 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
