Re: [Banshee-List] Some observations on our data collecting

[Alan McGovern <alan mcgovern gmail com>]

If replay gain is supported properly, the only 'downside' for files
without replaygain tags is that they won't play at the correct volume
as compared to the rest of your collection.

Alan.

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Theodore Lee <theo148 gmail com> wrote:
> On 04/03/10 03:32, David Nielsen wrote:
>> Banshee/Configuration/player_engine/replay_gain_enabled:
>>    Users:                   427
>>    230  : False
>>    197  : True
>>
>> We might want to debate the default for this. Seems to increase the
>> experience of music if available, any cons?
>
> Well FWIW, Banshee's Replay Gain support is pretty much broken at the
> moment. The volume is only scaled for the first song and retains the
> same scaling for subsequent songs, even if they have distinctly
> different gain levels. The patch in bug 600072[1] seems to fix this problem.
>
> Once fixed, I personally think that Replay Gain is definitely worth
> enabling by default in Banshee. It makes things easier when playing
> tagged files, and I don't think it has any negative effects when playing
> untagged files.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Theo
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> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600072
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