Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2022-11-11 Thread JII
+1 for foobar (And its preamp with and without RG info function, still not available in squeezebox :'( ) JII's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65718 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2022-11-10 Thread garym
Fahzz wrote: > Check out this thread: > > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?112796-replay-gain-recommendations> > > > Foobar used to be free - maybe still is. yes, foobar2000 is free (at least the windows version I use) *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter,

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2022-11-09 Thread Fahzz
Check out this thread: https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?112796-replay-gain-recommendations> Foobar used to be free - maybe still is. Pi4 w/Allo Boss 2 Player (Wired), Max2Play w/LMS Server 8.2 Router: Netgear R700P File Storage: Samsung T5 SSD Music Service: Qobuz Logitech

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2022-11-09 Thread P Nelson
KTSq wrote: > I have started to tag my library with replaygain tags. This is a process > that will take me some time. > > In the meantime l have the same problem, that (local) tracks without > replaygain play much louder. I use DBpoweramp which includes a batch converter so you could do your

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2022-11-09 Thread P Nelson
zoltanplangar wrote: > use XRECODE it can do that in batch (but is 10$ for the replay gain > function) > > anyway if you are concerned with sound quality , unfortunately > replaygain creates jitter. > > my solution was a preamp Don't bother replying to this post. See Michael's response

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2022-11-09 Thread garym
zoltanplangar wrote: > > anyway if you are concerned with sound quality , unfortunately > replaygain creates jitter. > Sorry, this is incorrect in so many ways. *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B-4GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2022-11-09 Thread zoltanplangar
KTSq wrote: > I have started to tag my library with replaygain tags. This is a process > that will take me some time. > > In the meantime l have the same problem, that (local) tracks without > replaygain play much louder. use XRECODE it can do that in batch (but is 10$ for the replay gain

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2022-11-09 Thread JII
It seems to me to be a real problem with a "simple" solution. I'm not a programmer, but why not "just" activate the same gain adjustment that exist for internet streaming, for local streaming with replaygain and local streaming without replaygain ?

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2022-11-09 Thread KTSq
JII wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Sorry for the "awaking" of this (very) old subject that I just discover, > but as 808htfan suggested and I more recently ( > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?116572-Replay-Gain-Preamp-and-Clipping-prevention > ), adding exactly the same function for

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-29 Thread touchmatt
aubuti wrote: Unfortunately I'm not familiar with the Synology family. How do you normally update LMS? Is it through a Synology firmware update? If so, then it's probably not available now because 7.8 is still beta software. I have no idea what Synology will do about updating to 7.8,

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-29 Thread aubuti
Yes, unfortunately that's a major downside to having to depend on the NAS manufacturer for updates. They generally don't update their firmware for beta versions of things like LMS. aubuti's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-28 Thread aubuti
touchmatt wrote: I've tried updating the firmware, but I can't do it automatically. Is there a update available for the Synology server do you have advice how I can update it? Unfortunately I'm not familiar with the Synology family. How do you normally update LMS? Is it through a Synology

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-28 Thread touchmatt
aubuti wrote: I believe the setting for getting Smart Gain with a external sources (internet radio, Pandora, etc) is only in LMS 7.8, and you are running 7.7.2. I've tried updating the firmware, but I can't do it automatically. Is there a update available for the Synology server do you have

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-25 Thread touchmatt
I'm very sorry for the dumb question, but I can't find this setting on my server which is installed on a Synology NAS. Can you please explain where I can set it? I'm using Logitech Media Server Versie: 7.7.2 - r33893 @ Wed Mar 14 06:37:22 MDT 2012

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-25 Thread aubuti
touchmatt wrote: I'm very sorry for the dumb question, but I can't find this setting on my server which is installed on a Synology NAS. Can you please explain where I can set it? I'm using Logitech Media Server Versie: 7.7.2 - r33893 @ Wed Mar 14 06:37:22 MDT 2012 I believe the setting

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-24 Thread 808htfan
I don't listen to a mix of local and internet tracks often, if ever, but I also wanted to thank Michael and everyone else for continuing to improve LMS. I wonder, does this new gain adjustment apply to local tracks/files that don't have replaygain info? Can it be made to? I want NBC's *-Ed-*

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-22 Thread M_Meyer
I also updated from 7.7.2 to the latest 7.8 nightly. Now also radio streams are at the same level as my local music, great! Thanks a lot for implementing this feature! SB Touch+SB Radio, Sheevaplug Server, Squeeze Commander

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-17 Thread garym
mherger wrote: Will this only work with TOUCH or RADIO? I'm not seeing any options for setting in settingsplayersaudio for SQUEEZEPLAY running as player on my PC. It should work on all players which support replay gain. And I do see this option for a squeezeplay running on my

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-15 Thread Richie
I'd also like to thank Michael for this update. I've been waiting a long time for something like this, so thanks for continuing to make my Squeezebox systems get better and better. Richard Richie's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-14 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: I assume it's not yet in the 7.8 unstable release for Debian yet? What should I do if I want to try it? Hmm... upload to the debian repositories is failing. Let me see if I can figure this one out... -- Michael Surely it is available. I installed it last night

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-14 Thread Michael Herger
I assume it's not yet in the 7.8 unstable release for Debian yet? What should I do if I want to try it? Hmm... upload to the debian repositories is failing. Let me see if I can figure this one out... -- Michael ___ Touch mailing list

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-14 Thread Michael Herger
Surely it is available. I installed it last night and there is another new build today http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/7.8/sc/e258b12/logitechmediaserver_7.8.0~1371193145_all.deb Yeah, direct download was fine. But the debian repository was stuck at a build from almost a week ago.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-14 Thread rgro
Thank you, Michael, for doing this and providing this useful change for those of us that like to have mixed playlists. After having lived with the volume changes between tracks for years, it's really wonderful to be finally be able to have some control over that issue!!! I have a number of

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-14 Thread tcutting
mherger wrote: This sounds good. How about a debian version :-) Now that I've got some thumbs up I'll merge it to 7.8. Stay tuned. -- Michael Michael- I assume it's not yet in the 7.8 unstable release for Debian yet? What should I do if I want to try it?

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-14 Thread MeSue
Thanks, Michael... This is a fantastic enhancement! (Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk. Please pardon any typos!) MeSue's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=985 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-13 Thread JJZolx
Should this # only support track gain for remote streams if ($track-remote) { return preventClipping( $track-replay_gain() || $prefs-client($client)-get('remoteReplayGain'), $track-replay_peak() ); } be if ($track-remote client($client)-get('remoteReplayGain')) To avoid the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-13 Thread HeadBanger
I've settled on -8dB. For me this gave the best all round result between Napster, internet radio and local replay gain tagged files. For those that listen to music from a variety of sources this is a killer feature. For any users that have not upgraded to 7.8 yet it is worth doing just for this

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-13 Thread HeadBanger
It works well! I would like to set the internet gain a little lower than it is currently - Napster still sounds louder for example but even as it is it achieves a much nicer transition between local and internet music though so thank you! Could there be a user variable user defined setting or

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-13 Thread Michael Herger
Will this only work with TOUCH or RADIO? I'm not seeing any options for setting in settingsplayersaudio for SQUEEZEPLAY running as player on my PC. It should work on all players which support replay gain. And I do see this option for a squeezeplay running on my Mac. -- Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-13 Thread JJZolx
HeadBanger wrote: It works well! I would like to set the internet gain a little lower than it is currently - Napster still sounds louder for example but even as it is it achieves a much nicer transition between local and internet music though so thank you! Could there be a user variable

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-13 Thread Michael Herger
Have a look in the player audio settings. There IS a user defined variable that can be set beetween -20dB and +20dB, in one dB increments. The slider as always is a bit more restrictive than the text input field: using the latter you should be able to enter any decimal number between -20

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-11 Thread Michael Herger
My bad, I thought that was checked in to 7.8. At the moment I'm running from nightlies. Ok, here's a build off of the internet-replaygain branch: http://www.herger.net/slim/LogitechMediaServer-7.8.0-1370948181.exe It's the same as the latest in public/7.8 plus the changes for the replaygain

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-11 Thread HeadBanger
mherger wrote: My bad, I thought that was checked in to 7.8. At the moment I'm running from nightlies. Ok, here's a build off of the internet-replaygain branch: http://www.herger.net/slim/LogitechMediaServer-7.8.0-1370948181.exe It's the same as the latest in public/7.8 plus the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-11 Thread JJZolx
mherger wrote: My bad, I thought that was checked in to 7.8. At the moment I'm running from nightlies. Ok, here's a build off of the internet-replaygain branch: http://www.herger.net/slim/LogitechMediaServer-7.8.0-1370948181.exe It's the same as the latest in public/7.8 plus the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-11 Thread Michael Herger
Will gladly give it a try - are you able to provide a BSD version? http://www.herger.net/slim/logitechmediaserver-7.8.0-1370948181-FreeBSD.tgz What else? :-) -- Michael ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-11 Thread Michael Herger
Ok. It appears to work well. Tested with both online radio and MOG. Cool! What value did you use? Someone who uses a service that does include ReplayGain metadata (Pandora?) should verify that those values are used instead of the default. Pandora and Slacker are the only services I know

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-11 Thread JJZolx
mherger wrote: Ok. It appears to work well. Tested with both online radio and MOG. Cool! What value did you use? -6. Not sure if that's settled, but it seems to be working well so far. JJZolx's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-11 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: What else? :-) -- Michael This sounds good. How about a debian version :-) slartibartfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35609 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-10 Thread Michael Herger
Michael, is your checkin for the remote ReplayGain option in the current build, or do we need to wait until tomorrow? I'd like to try it and give you some feedback. I haven't checked anything in yet, as I wanted someone to validate the approach first. I added a more complete diff to bug 2431

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-10 Thread JJZolx
mherger wrote: Michael, is your checkin for the remote ReplayGain option in the current build, or do we need to wait until tomorrow? I'd like to try it and give you some feedback. I haven't checked anything in yet, as I wanted someone to validate the approach first. I added a more

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-07 Thread HeadBanger
mherger wrote: I don't think you can rely on similarity. I know of certain artists or albums which seem to have a much lower level than most others. Eg. Sting, in particular his Bring on the Night and other 80s albums. -- Michael Hi Michael. I know that these is no real LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-07 Thread mherger
If somebody is willing to edit some code, you might give the following change try: Code: diff --git a/Slim/Player/ReplayGain.pm b/Slim/Player/ReplayGain.pm index 5fe5710..60e7692 100644 --- a/Slim/Player/ReplayGain.pm +++ b/Slim/Player/ReplayGain.pm @@ -40,10

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-06 Thread jimbobvfr400
Mnyb wrote: I use smart mix and no replay gain works very good, I ever felt the need for replay gain in the direct place. mherger wrote: Heh... I was wondering whether I was the last one not to use any gain correction. You're not alone! I find I either tend to listen to albums or

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-06 Thread M_Meyer
I also like the idea of smartgain. For my music, most of the replaygain differences is also in the date of the recorded music, not in the style. Older music (80's) has no big negative gain, but actual music has up to -10db. Streaming content (for me only radio stations) is similar to actual

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-06 Thread JJZolx
mherger wrote: I use smart mix and no replay gain works very good, I ever felt the need for replay gain in the direct place. Heh... I was wondering whether I was the last one not to use any gain correction. similar music tend to have similar volume in my case ? must be a bit

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-04 Thread Michael Herger
I use smart mix and no replay gain works very good, I ever felt the need for replay gain in the direct place. Heh... I was wondering whether I was the last one not to use any gain correction. similar music tend to have similar volume in my case ? must be a bit dependent on your library,

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-03 Thread Dogberry2
Keep in mind what mnyb pointed out above: your audio files must have the appropriate replay gain tags. If they don't, then Smart Gain won't do anything, as it will have no guide to how the levels should be adjusted.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-03 Thread JJZolx
There are pros and cons to using ReplayGain. First, to my ear it does a mediocre job of volume leveling. I still use the volume control to adjust, far more than I would expect. Another big disadvantage is that if you also listen to streaming radio or services like MOG, then having ReplayGain

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-03 Thread garym
JJZolx wrote: There are pros and cons to using ReplayGain. First, to my ear it does a mediocre job of volume leveling. I still use the volume control to adjust, far more than I would expect. Another big disadvantage is that if you also listen to streaming radio or services like MOG,

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-03 Thread JJZolx
Yeah, I think I filed a request years ago that Squeezebox Server give us a simple option to enter a constant volume adjustment for all streaming content. It would at least get it to where both are in the same ballpark.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-03 Thread MeSue
JJZolx wrote: Yeah, I think I filed a request years ago that Squeezebox Server give us a simple option to enter a constant volume adjustment for all streaming content. It would at least get it to where both are in the same ballpark. Yep. I loved the Smart Mix plugin when I first tried it,

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-06-03 Thread Mnyb
I use smart mix and no replay gain works very good, I ever felt the need for replay gain in the direct place. similar music tend to have similar volume in my case ? must be a bit dependent on your library, and my cassoulet listening is not very loud

[SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-05-25 Thread tmauceri
I've been a SBT/VBA user for 2.5 years and have never experimented with Volume Adjustment/Replay Gain. I have had this set to No Volume Adjustment. Does using Smart Gain or the other settings have any affect on SQ? What are the pros and cons if any?

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-05-25 Thread Mnyb
Your files must have the corresponding replay gain tags . It functions by actually adjusting the volume on the squeezebox to a target volume so everything sours equally loud. By the nature of most modern recordings , the volume gets lower on average. Potentially the sn ratio gets a bit lower

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-05-25 Thread Mnyb
The squeezebox volume operates in 24 bit FYI Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98845

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-05-25 Thread garym
Yes 24 bit. And as a result very good handling of digital volume. I keep my volume at 75% or above. Really like smartgain. garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart Gain

2013-05-25 Thread tmauceri
I'll keep Smart Gain on for now. I have a few playlists with old and new music that have dramatic volume differences. Once again guys thanks for the quick response. tmauceri's Profile:

[SlimDevices: Touch] Smart gain internet radio stations

2010-12-25 Thread Jacky
Hi all merry Christmas I dont know if some internet FM. station send some information for replay-gains, but I could recognize some differences in sound qualities by setting smart-gain on off and that for mostly all stations, at least those with min. 128 kbs streams. By setting smart gain on,

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart gain internet radio stations

2010-12-25 Thread Andy Grundman
On Dec 25, 2010, at 4:34 AM, Jacky wrote: Hi all merry Christmas I dont know if some internet FM. station send some information for replay-gains, but I could recognize some differences in sound qualities by setting smart-gain on off and that for mostly all stations, at least those

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Smart gain internet radio stations

2010-12-25 Thread Jacky
andyg;597062 Wrote: The effect you are hearing is the placebo effect. ;) Any gain setting has no effect on radio streams. What do you mean with placebo effect in this case? Maybe you need a more resolving system, but I can hear clearly the differences despite they are subtible, or