ReplayGain

[simoncn]

(11-06-2016 11:18)Pepsican Wrote:  I guess whether you'd use album gain for levelling or track gain, depends very much on your purpose. For listening to albums I would, like you, apply album gain. You'd want to preserve the output level differences because they probably are as the artist intended. But when building random playlists, that idea is no longer valid. Applying album gain in such a case could still leave you having to dial up or down the volume, especially when your selection of tracks is a bit eclectic and varies from 1980s releases to those of the current century.

Even with playlists, I think album gain would produce a better result than track gain. Album gain is the average of the album, so this will be higher for a track from a 1980s album that was recorded at a lower level.

Quote:And in my view that case occurs when I start building playlists of various artists from CDs of various recording qualities. Something I personally do a lot. Think of playlists for parties or fitness.

The recording quality aspect would be handled by using album gain. Equalizing levels for a party/fitness playlist might be a use case for track gain.

Quote:That said, I guess (without understanding the structure and architecture of your software properly) that if a ReplayGain implementation makes it to MinimServer / MinimStreamer, a property to set which of the two you want to use is probably one of the less problematic things to programme compared to the rest (0 = off, 1 = trackgain, 2= album gain).

I can imagine other combinations that users would want, such as using album gain if available and falling back to track gain if album gain isn't available. Also, some users might want peak level factored into the calculation.

Quote:For now, thank you for your time and I'll just conclude you're contemplating some ideas and I'll sit back, hope, and see what happens.

Thanks for your time and input. You're right that I'm currently at the contemplating stage. This is on the list of possible future enhancements, which is quite a long list.