The new flac frontend has a "Replaygain" option enabled by default. Kinda foolish to have this on by default if it butchers the sound like this. I can understanding the need to normalize when batch encoding but on a per-album basis and file basis rather silly.
--replay-gain Calculate ReplayGain values and store in Vorbis comments. Title gains/peaks will be computed for each file, and an album gain/peak will be computed for all files. All input files must have the same resolution, sample rate, and number of channels. The sample rate must be one of 8, 11.025, 12, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, or 48 kHz. NOTE: this option may also leave a few extra bytes in the PADDING block. _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac