Jippers;491062 Wrote: > Hi All, > > Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I'm sure someone > will tell me anyway if it isn't! > > But anyway, I have an issue with the way SqueezeCenter does volume > levelling. FooBar2000 and Winamp have plug-ins that do radio-style > volume levelling on-the-fly and I've always liked it that way. To my > knowledge (and this may have changed recently) Squeezebox doesn't do > this. But is there a plug-in for SB that will do that? > > Now, before you start going on about the virtues of Reply-Gain and all > that, I DO NOT WISH TO USE REPLY GAIN AT ALL WHERE POSSIBLE!!!! > Firstly, I have had too many issues with it and it just doesn't > calculate level values properly and then SB doesn't read them properly. > (example: one album I re-applied reply gain to set it to a maximum value > of 93% (around -3dB) and SqueezeCentre scanned that as being -58dB, thus > the album is now unplayable in squeezebox). > > Secondly, I have a collection on my SqueezeBox system of over 80,000 > songs, and re-applying Reply Gain to make sure every file is set to the > correct level just isn't an option. > > So, is there a plugin that will do this? I haven't yet upgraded to SB4 > yet - I'm still running Version: 7.3.4 - 27864 as it has been stable > thus far. > > Also too, I can't get the cross-fade function to work at all. I get no > gapless playback at all, despite having tyhe settings set to "on" all > the time. Any ideas? > > Thanx > > Dave
Dave, there are 2 crucial questions: 1) what format are your music files in? 2) how exactly did you apply ReplayGain in the past? Traditional "Radio-style" levelling involves quite heavy compression which I'm certain you don't want to do. I suspect that the method you used to apply RG in the past may not be correct. I've never had/seen any problems with RG like the ones you describe. Likewise, gapless and crossfade. Anyway, if you answer 1+2 above perhaps we can help. Phil -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB Touch Beta (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72031 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
