Re: [slim] Need help with MP3Gain/normalization

2008-08-30 Thread Phil Leigh
You will see the individual track gain adjustment values in track properties regardless of whether the Replay Gain is turned on or not. In Settings - Player - Basic - Audio you need to set Volume/Adjustment/Replay Gain to Smart Gain. I presume your files are MP3? - what format are you

Re: [slim] Need help with MP3Gain/normalization

2008-08-30 Thread igroucho
Nonreality;334167 Wrote: Yeah you need to make sure smartgain is turned on. I would not have used mp3gain myself. Did you use the tag method or the more permanent method? Myself I would use foobar or dbpoweramp to do replay gain and make sure that foobar uses ID3v2.3 tags. Mp3tag hasn't

Re: [slim] Need help with MP3Gain/normalization

2008-08-30 Thread wolly
I had Replay Gain set to Smart Gain. They are mp3 files and it's a direct stream. Still no luck Phil Leigh;334145 Wrote: You will see the individual track gain adjustment values in track properties regardless of whether the Replay Gain is turned on or not. In Settings - Player - Basic

Re: [slim] Need help with MP3Gain/normalization

2008-08-30 Thread wolly
I believe its the tag method (i used the default) and thought i read that the primary method of this program is not destructive to the original mp3 file. So you would suggest using the two other programs you mentioned and continue with tags and not make the changes permanent, right?

Re: [slim] Need help with MP3Gain/normalization

2008-08-30 Thread Phil Leigh
Yes - use the tag method - do not make permanent changes to your files!! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom

Re: [slim] Need help with MP3Gain/normalization

2008-08-30 Thread ModelCitizen
You should never make irreversable normalisation changes to your music files. You should always just set the tags. You can then choose to use these (or not) per player. For instance I use ReplayaGain on my Boom but not on my Transporter. I have just used the (highly recommended and free)

Re: [slim] Need help with MP3Gain/normalization

2008-08-30 Thread jth
The changes that mp3gain makes to your mp3 file are not permanent. The changes are reversible if mp3gain has written tags to your files or you have noted the gain elsewhere. (I have written a script that writes the gain to a database as well as adding it to the id3v2 tag - I don't want mp3gain

[slim] Need help with MP3Gain/normalization

2008-08-29 Thread wolly
I loaded my whole library into MP3Gain. Had it do the analysis on each track and applied the adjustment that it recommended. I then went to the Slimserver settings and had it adjust volume based on these tags. When i look at each track's properties within slim's browser, i do see the