Perhaps I am confused here, but I would think that a server-side fix could be implemented as follows:
If the file has no replaygain tags, do nothing. Else, if the file has replaygain tags, calculate from the track peak and track replaygain whether the adjustment will make the track clip. If it will, replace the replaygain with the maximum possible value that will not cause clipping. Perform the same function for the album replaygain. Send the file along and let the player apply album, track, or no replaygain based upon its settings. I believe that this will not be particularly resource-intensive on the server, because it really only has to perform the calculation when the replaygain value is positive. Are there other ways to apply positive gain in the digital domain other than through a replaygain adjustment? Unless we are applying positive digital gain we cannot cause digital clipping (bit overflow), correct? Digital clipping may have occurred earlier in the recording chain, and we may have "flat" peaks, but that damage is done, and whatever information we have left by definition fits within the 16 bits we have (or 24, or 48, or whatever the file contains). Am I missing something here? -- jeffmeh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jeffmeh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3986 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30316 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
