On Thursday 25,March,2010 08:16 PM, Benja wrote: > I have just ripped a new album and found the volume is low, so I have > investigated a little about ReplayGain, but I would like to ensure what > the behaviour of Banshee is, and what you recommend me. > > I have analysed this album with "vorbisgain" and it writes some new > tags. Then, I have rescanned my library and played this album, and I see > in the log that Banshee uses the values on these tags, and even > calculates some kind of "user gain", that I don't know what it is. > > I was going to do the same with my MP3 files, but I have seen that > "mp3gain" applies the gain in the file (although it says that can be > reverted). I suppose that the ideal situation would be only add tags > with gain values so Banshee can interpret them. I have found that > "foobar2000 for Windows" can do that. mp3gain without the "-r" only writes tags. Banshee appears to interpret these tags correctly. As for the user gain, I believe it is calculated using the gain from the replaygain tag, and your user-specified volume. Then it will scale accordingly. -- Kind regards, Chow Loong Jin
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