I have over 600 albums that do not have replaygain tags. Whats the easiest way to scan all of these files? These files are on CD-R so I have to use foobar to scan them (unless a n external program can write to foobar's database). What I'm doing currently is loading each album, scanning them one by one, which will take me all day.

Any ideas?

If they are properly tagged, i.e. every file in each album has the same value in the ALBUM tag, AND no two albums have the same name.. you could add them all to the playlist, select them all, and choose Replaygain->Scan selection as multiple albums using album field.

HTH

edit: I'm stupid

thanks teetee

I got a similar problem, gave up on it tho, I got 900 CDs on my hd, all properly named/tagged and all just missing replaygain. One thing that bugs me is it only will check album... i have mroe than one "Greatest Hits" so blah! although i think that'd be the only thing to trip it up. Anyways the problem is I just dragged ~100 CDs to the playlist adn did mass replaygain... foobar sorta just dies. Nothing gets done, got up to using a fwe hundred MB of ram and i just killed it, either its not doing anything or it is and no responding.... either way it doesn't work that well . That was with RC10 i think, maybe i'll try 13.

I have used the FB2K replaygain to massive applications to my albums and it has always worked with all the recent RC's. I have a Celeron 4 2.0 Ghz with 1 gig of 256mhz memory. The gain is applied, but runs and runs and runs. But I added gain to some 2500+ tracks in a commensurate number of albums. The job ran nearly a day. So what!? It is not like I had to crank the damned computer to keep it running. B) YMMV

Work in smaller batches. I usually do a max of 500 files at a time; just to be safe. I have 512MB of RAM.

w00p just tried it again and its going fine n/m my complaints =D its doing 1935 files... wonder what was messed before :/ Forget if it would ever finish scanning a file or not... eventaully at least foobar would stop responding and I could watch task manager and it'd slowly eat ram.. i let it go for awhile a few times just to see if it did anything and it'd get to a few hundred mbs. Same thing would happend when I tried to do remove all tags except for name/title/albumtrack/date/forget. Oh well doesnt' matter anymore foobar>*

Could the replaygain setting be applied to the file in question while it's playing? I tend to do it as I listen to them and would rather not have to mess with once it's done.

Yes I've just tested it (and you could have to )

Basically there is a queuing system on file updates (except for renaming) so that, if you attempt to change the tags or headers (from within foobar2000) while playing, it waits until you have finished playing that song and then does the update.

You can confirm this by playing a file, ReplayGaining it (while playing) and then open the console (Components->Show console) and you will see
INFO (CORE) : file info update pending / file busy on :
<name of file>

Also when you play another song and then look at the file info of the one you ReplayGained, it will now have the RG info in the header as you want.

would be nice if there was 'calculate trg or arg for the next song that will play in the background' option.

I think that there used to be an option to calculate the ReplayGain of files while they were playing but Peter removed it a while back with a good reason (though I don't remember the reason..).

Try searching the forum if you want to find the discussion.

yes, but what i mean is to calculate rg before the playback...

I track RG'ed close to 1100 CDs two months ago using FB .667. No problems. Just make sure when you copy the files off your CDR's onto your hd you change the files' properties from Read Only. B)

... unless you are running XP, since MS finally fixed this "problem". Now files copied from CD to the HD are not set with the read-only attribute as in previous Windows versions.