Rnee wrote: > > Apart from listening to full albums a lot, it also happens regularly > that I play a mix based on genre or timeframe; naturally the result is > having mixed sound levels. > I know about that replay gain exists and think I know what it does. > My questions > 1) is it advisable to modify my whole collection to 1 level? > 2) what are the disadvantages/reasons not to do this? > 3) anyone who did this and went back? >
Adding ReplayGain information to your audio files doesn't change the soundlevel or converts the music in any way. It is just -meta-data- added with information about "the loudness" of the track. It's up to your playing device to read it and act upon it, or just ignore the information and play it like there wasn't any ReplayGain information. So there's really no harm done adding ReplayGain information to your music, unless you are using a player which has a fixed behaviour on ReplayGain info, which doesn't fit your liking. But I think most players understanding ReplayGain info, also offers options on how to (and if to) use it. If I was to add ReplayGain info to a big set of audiofiles (which have album name tagged), I would use something like foobar2000: Right-click the root of you music library, and choose ReplayGain -> Scan as albums (by tag) This would add ReplayGain to all tracks, including loudness of the albums the tracks belongs too. Then I would open Settings page in LMS, and choose: Player -> Audio -> Volume Adjustment/Replay Gain = "Smart Gain" The info box to this LMS setting, explains it well what it does: > Some audio tracks contain volume adjustment, or "Replay Gain", > information that can be used during playback to make sure that tracks > and albums sound equally loud. The player can use this information if it > is present. "Track gain" can be used to make sure that all tracks sound > equally loud. "Album gain" can be used to make sure that all albums > sound equally loud, but that volume differences between tracks within an > album are preserved. "Smart" gain selection uses album gain if > successive songs are from the same album or track gain for a mixed > playlist. */Stig* '*rockland*.dk' (https://www.rockland.dk) - '*last.fm*/user/rockland' (https://last.fm/user/rockland) - '*discogs*.com/user/StigNygaard' (https://discogs.com/user/StigNygaard) - '*plus.google*.com/+StigNygaard' (https://google.me/+StigNygaard) *Server:* LMS 7.9.2 ('LmsUpdate' (https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmsupdate/files/DSM6.x/)) - 0018.1548605546 @ Sun Jan 27 2019 on Synology DS716+II. *Clients:* 'RPi3 (Max2Play, 7\" touch, HiFiBerry Digi+ Pro)' (https://shop.max2play.com/en/raspberry-pi-2-bundle-7-display.html), SB Touch, OrangeSqueeze/SqueezePlayer. *Livingroom HiFi:* Marantz PM6005 and F3/Lyd Audiovector 2. Try my *'Art Grabr' (https://greasyfork.org/scripts/20771)* for fetching big *cover-art* from various sites - And *'Album Linkr' (https://greasyfork.org/scripts/21153)* for a better *last.fm* desktop browser experience... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stig Nygaard's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4236 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110369 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
