Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Replaygain?

["James \"Doc\" Livingston" <doclivingston gmail com>]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 20:32 +0100, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 08:35:48PM +0200, Mika Wahlroos wrote: 
> > As far as I know, Rhythmbox will not add any replaygain data to the 
> > files on its own so you have to do that with some other tools such as 
> > vorbisgain. Rhythmbox should make use of the data if it is present, though.
> 
> In my experience, RB only rspects play gain in mp3s, it seems to be ignored
> in m4a, flac and vorbis files.

Most of the tools that apply replay gain to MP3 files don't store the
information in tags as happens with other formats, they tend to modify
the global volume level stored in the MP3 header - so it will affect
every player regardless of whether it support replaygain or not.

Recent versions of Rhythmbox have had the replaygain code disabled,
because it was flakey, an no-one has fixed it back up yet.


Cheers,

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