aubuti;443159 Wrote: > Why can't it? It's not really smart-gain mode that is the issue. Any random mix of different album tracks could cause a gain mismatch. Here's why.
Last I remember, no implementation of replay-gain that I know of will boost (gain +dB) a track to meet the 83dB or 89dB goal (depends on the tool you use to apply gain) if the boost will cause clipping. So if you have a track with mostly 80dB average volume, but a short section (say a nice snappy drum hit) at 93dB the tool can only boost by 3dB in order to avoid clipping at 96dB. This means the track will only be average of 83dB instead of 89dB. That's 6dB average lower volume from other tracks. Hrm, I might need to grab all the REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN and REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK tags from my collection and do some gnuplots on them. -- SuperQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 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
