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.

-s.


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