Sorry for this late post, but reading this thread made me very uncomfortable. The reason is simple: when only using track gain, you would help the loudness war by making the volume of each track about the same. This is one of the reasons I don't use play lists a lot: the volume leveling would result in a ballad being played too loud and a track that shouts 'play me loud' not loud enough. It's like listening to the radio, where the same leveling is applied (albeit in a different way).
By setting the album gain to 0, you would defeat the whole idea of RG. RG not only works when switching albums (as Nonreality correctly mentions), it works always. So if I played yesterday an album of 1980's, with an album gain of mostly between 0 and -3 dB, and today a recent album (with album gains mostly between -7 an -12 dB), I don't have to adjust the volume manually. The whole idea becomes even more obvious if you also play classical music: this type of music never has those weird volume levels. (And imagine the effect of playing Mahler's 5th symphony with track gain: what a disaster that would be!) The whole idea of using RG is to automatically adjust for the difference in loudness used in recordings over the last decades. IMO, anyone who cares about the quality of music should only use it for that purpose (with the exception of parties with appropriate play lists). Teus -- Teus de Jong ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Teus de Jong's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15415 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60502 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
