Not having entered the world of BitTorrent yet, I decided to download
the mp3s of NIN's The Slip (see Music forum). As ever with anything I
put into my library, I ran foobar2000's ReplayGain scanner over them. 
And got some very strange results:

Album: -8.53
Tracks:
1: 6.86
2: 64.81
3: -10.69
4: -8.41
5: 64.81
6: -8.86
7: 1.77
8: -2.27
9: -7.09
10: -9.06

Tracks 2 and 5 are *not* astonishingly quiet, and I shudder to think
what would happen if I ever use "apply track gain"! (Guesses: just lots
of clipping.  I'm already used to WMA tracks blasting out when track
gain is(n't) being applied; they're louder, but not threateningly so.)

Just before sending this, I decided to re-run the RG calcs in foobar;
and the 64.81 values mutated into more credible -10.91 and -8.36
values.

Clearly, something went wrong first time round; but I got no
indication, other than an almost-certainly barmy figure. I wonder if
it's happened elsewhere, and I just haven't noticed it?

-- Brian


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