ReplayGain

[simbun]

(16-04-2023 14:57)simoncn Wrote:  I understand but if not all the OP's players support the tags then applying replay gain with MinimStreamer might be preferable to modifying the files using mp3gain.

But DAP's aren't served by MinimStreamer so is it preferable to keep one copy with tags and one copy "gained"?

Maybe I should have been more explicit in my original post, something like:

(16-04-2023 09:46)simbun Wrote:  If all your players support the ReplayGain tags, either directly or indirectly via MinimStreamer, then this is the best approach as you can calculate both track and album gain and flip between the two if desired, but if you have some players that don't support the tags and you don't want to store multiple copies of your tracks then you'll need to use MP3Gain as foobar doesn't generate undo tags so 'Apply gain to file content' is a destructive process.

I'll try and be more verbose in future.