Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Managing Loudness in a Music Library

2016-11-11 Thread drmatt
You could write a module for LMS that can calculate replaygain on files before it plays them, but you'd need a fairly beefy system to use it live. Better off doing an offline sweep of all your files and calculating and applying it that way. -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Managing Loudness in a Music Library

2016-11-11 Thread Roland0
pablolie wrote: > From what I have observed it merely adds 2 tags MP3GAIN_MINMAX and > MP3GAIN_UNDO. There are also REPLYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN and > REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_MAX atgs - but I have to admit I am not sure if those > were introduced by MP3GAIN. > May well be introduced by the encoder (lame does)

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Managing Loudness in a Music Library

2016-11-11 Thread slartibartfast
pablolie wrote: > From what I have observed it merely adds 2 tags MP3GAIN_MINMAX and > MP3GAIN_UNDO. There are also REPLYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN and > REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_MAX atgs - but I have to admit I am not sure if those > were introduced by MP3GAIN. > > According to > http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Managing Loudness in a Music Library

2016-11-11 Thread pablolie
drmatt wrote: > Mp3gain *can* also adjust the Id3 tags and leave the audio data alone.. >From what I have observed it merely adds 2 tags MP3GAIN_MINMAX and MP3GAIN_UNDO. According to http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Automatic_Volume_Adjustment, LMS does recognize and act on MP3 tags. I cer

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Managing Loudness in a Music Library

2016-11-11 Thread drmatt
Mp3gain *can* also adjust the Id3 tags and leave the audio data alone. I know it used to default to modifying the audio data but I believe it defaults to the opposite behaviour now. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdev

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Managing Loudness in a Music Library

2016-11-11 Thread Roland0
drmatt wrote: > One point dawns on me. Unless you've written the gain tags into the > files LMS won't apply any corrections. You have to have processed and > written the gain tags into the source files first. Smart Gain just reads > and applies those. > But you did say you've used mp3gain. As abo

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Managing Loudness in a Music Library

2016-11-11 Thread drmatt
One point dawns on me. Unless you've written the gain tags into the files LMS won't apply any corrections. You have to have processed and written the gain tags into the source files first. Smart Gain just reads and applies those.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Managing Loudness in a Music Library

2016-11-11 Thread slartibartfast
pablolie wrote: > I run MP3Gain and normalize to a level that doesn't report clipping. I > think I have it set up to 91dB. Unless it reports clipping at that > level. I do dream about an automatically normalized/enforced loudness > level across my library. > > And Smartgain doesn't work for me -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Interconnects and Power leads. Snake Oil?

2016-11-11 Thread drmatt
cliveb wrote: > The power companies are obliged by the government to support the scheme, > and the money it costs them is obtained by a "renewables surcharge" on > the power bills. So in effect, people without solar panel systems are > subsidising those who have them. It's another disgraceful exa

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Managing Loudness in a Music Library

2016-11-11 Thread drmatt
The state of the art is to apply a uniform replaygain to your source files. If that's not perfect (it isn't) then you are only left with manual intervention. I've just thrown metaflac at each album one by one with its default target loudness level of about -3db peak I think. Works well enough to g

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Managing Loudness in a Music Library

2016-11-11 Thread JJZolx
I add ReplayGain tags to all FLAC files, but use it only for background listening. It's not terrible, but it's far from perfect. I find that I still need to adjust volume levels occasionally. JJZolx's Profile: http://forums

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Managing Loudness in a Music Library

2016-11-11 Thread Julf
pablolie wrote: > "Quiet" albums will still sound much quieter than loud ones. It might also be an issue of compression (as opposed to just level adjustment). A compressed track might show the same dB level, but sound much louder. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard.