Phil Leigh;491102 Wrote: > Dave, > there are 2 crucial questions: > 1) what format are your music files in? > 2) how exactly did you apply ReplayGain in the past?
Firstly, thank you to all who have answered thus far. I'm a bit sleep-deprived at the moment so my diplomacy skills are kinda null-and-void right now. Anyway, 1. all my music is in MP3 format. 2. I didn't use FooBar2000 to set up reply-gain. I never really have. I've collected music from all over the place (including the complete Songfight.org archive) and have never formally used reply-gain. I did use a small free-ware program called MP3Gain to try and fix the reply-gain stuff, but nothing changed. }Traditional "Radio-style" levelling involves quite heavy compression which I'm certain you don't want to do. [/QUOTE Wrote: > > > I don't necessarily want quite that level of dynamic compression, but > there is a massive jump in volume between some sound files and it is > quite annoying. The plug-ins in FooBar and Winamp do have the effect of > compressing, but not destroying the sound by hard limiting it. It's > just that when you're working on something around the house, or at my > desk, I hate having to reach for the volume knob all the time. > > > > > 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. > > > > You may be correct there. But I'm a little wary of modifying too > many setting in my files. I recently installed SongBird as an > additonal lightweight player. I must have missed a setting in the > library scan somewhere, but it then went and re-sorted every music on > my hard drive after I'd painstakingly filed everything that way i > wanted it! It took me 3 weeks to get it back to how it was, so I'd > like not to mess with much. This is why I'd prefer an on-the-fly > plug-in styled solution. It would, if nothing else, make SoftSqueeze > a lot more flexible in terms of options for users. > > > > > Likewise, gapless and crossfade. [/QUOTE} > > Again I stuffed that one up. I meant crossfade. radio style. A lot of > > people hate it, but I quite like it. Especially when you have a random > > mix and a live track is played back to back with a studio track - the > > cross-mixing of the audience noise onto the studio track sounds quite > > cool. > > > > Thanx in advance -- Jippers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jippers's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31599 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
