I had a hard time figuring out just what was happening with the replay gain and SqueezeCenter. I thought there were bugs in the software tools I was using to set gain. I experimented and found out that SC will look at iTunes comments fields to get the volume info and then somehow add on to that the REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN tags as well. So if both were negative values, the volume could be VERY quiet.
I use MP3Tag and I added columns to display the REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN field and the iTunes comment fields (forgot what the actual field name is). I added replay gain tags by using foobar2000. I have a combination of MP3's and FLAC files, and this tool works well for me (18,000+ tracks and growing). Once I figured out that SC somehow combined iTunes gain with the REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN tag, I sorted my huge collection of tracks by the comment field that iTunes uses and then deleted ALL the iTunes comments. I don't trust iTunes to do the right thing and I am fine with separating out my iTunes library from my Transporter/SC library. This behavior and experimenting was done about a year ago so it might be the case that SC has since been fixed. IMHO, SC should utilize ONLY the REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN tags for replay gain if they exist, and if not, then use ONLY the iTunes volume check information. But under no circumstances should it use both. If you need help trying to figure all this out or to duplicate my earlier experiments, I'd be happy to help out. Leif -- LeifPederson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LeifPederson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14930 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57672 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
