jeffmeh;266905 Wrote: > I believe that the difference is that applying replaygain tags will > require the player to be able to read the tags and adjust the gain > accordingly. Mp3gain, on the other hand, actually writes something to > each frame of the mp3 file that really changes the gain, so the player > need not do anything special other than just play the file. The > Mp3gain adjustment is reversible (you can back it out as long as when > you applied it you had mp3gain write tags keeping track of what it > did). So while you can turn replaygain on or off with a capable > player, you have to run mp3gain again for a file if you want to change > the gain. > > Therefore, making sure the gain adjustment does not cause clipping must > be done when mp3gain analyzes and writes to the file. There is no other > option. Replaygain could implement this at analyze/write tags time or > at playback time, although Foobar does the latter. I do not know of > any implementation of the former, but would be interested in hearing > about it. That's not entirely true. Mp3gain can alter the audio data as you describe but there is an option to only write gain tags without altering the audio data.
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