I know that replaygain is a secondary control mechanism. However, it seems "smartgain" in the squeezeboxes can not dynamically correct/address very significant differences between tracks (and I think in a large library one will easily enocunter a 10dB range these days).
The clipping aspect puzzles me. Of course if the WAV itself has distortion in it there is nothing that can be done about it. But a high enough replaygain can push a perfectly good base WAV (coded as a FLAC or MP3 with said replaygain info) into clipping as it gets converted to analog, right? Which is why I am puzzled by how many songs I download from amazon.com/mp3 are pushed to 98dB and show up as clipping in MP3gain, which seems easy enough to correct. However I would like to check and if necessary correct some FLAC stuff I ripped with dbPoweramp, and which dbPoweramp itself seems to have attached a high replaygain to (at least in the resulting MP3). I do not quite understand why dbPoweramp would have done that, because I have no such configuration in there. Weird. -- pablolie ...pablo Server: 3.3 GHz Intel E8600 Core 2 Duo (8GB) - Vista Ultimate 64 (and formerly Ubuntu 8.10 64) Sources: SB3 (4), SB Boom (2), Duet, Accuphase DP65v CD Amplifier: Accuphase E306v Loudspeakers: Ceeroy 3-way tower tuned by Darmstadt Psychoacoustics Lab Headphones: Grado SR-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65911 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
