I was inspired by this thread to look into ways to add replaygain tags
to my 'FLAC Image+CUE sheet collection'. Ideally I'd like to leave the
FLAC image untouched and just write RG tags to the CUE sheet. I use a
Macbook, and although there's a Foobar2000 port for Mac now, it doesn't
seem to have this capability, unless I've missed something.
I've used XLD for all my ripping, and it's capable of writing RG tags as
part of the ripping process, but somehow I managed to turn off the RG
options at some point in the past, so my files don't include these tags.
But it turns out that it's possible to generate a new CUE sheet from a
ripped image and to include RG tags in that new sheet.
I did:
'File' -> 'Open', and selected the CUE sheet (not the FLAC file). This
loads the list of tracks.
'File' -> 'Scan ReplayGain'. This produces a log file with the RG
values included, but it doesn't update the original CUE file. I thought
that meant that RG tags couldn't be added (I thought I'd read that
somewhere), but then I spotted..
'File' -> 'Save Cue Sheet As...'. This writes a new CUE sheet with the
RG tags included. Like this:
Code:
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REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN -6.03 dB
REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK 0.999969
FILE "Out Of The Blue.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Turn To Stone"
ISRC USSM17800576
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -6.35 dB
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.999023
INDEX 01 00:00:00
.
.
.
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...and LMS recognises both the album and track values.
Unfortunately I haven't yet found a way to automate this for a complete
folder structure. When I load multiple CUE sheets into XLD it seems to
want to start transcoding the audio files. But it's a start!
If anyone knows how to do this automatically for an entire music folder
I'd be pleased to hear it.
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