Hey,

It is just me or does Replaygain only lower the volume?
(meaning it never raises it!)

I like the feature because all tracks comes to around the same level but why couldn't it raise some and lower others?

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Neksus

It does raise some tracks, it depends on the album. Most modern day albums are usually lowered. Older cd's are usually raised.

If you want foobar to play replaygained tracks louder go to prefs -> playback and set preamp to + x.x DB higher for "files with RG info"

Funny!
All mine are lowered!
Some just above -1 db!
But all lowered!

Old Albums (Black Sabbat, Queen) are getting -1 to -4 db
New Albums (Spineshank, ill nino) are getting -9 to -12 db

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Neksus

Hey,

I read somewhere that this makes clipping?

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Neksus

It can indeed introduce clipping if you set the preamp slider too high. I personally wouldn't recommend setting it higher than 5 or 6 dB.

It may be useful to combine this with the Advanced Limiter DSP to prevent clipping.

Thanks All!!

It's nice that people are so willing to answer questions!

I have activated the Advanced Limiter DSP (never used this before)
and also made Preamp 6 dB!

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Neksus

Usually only some classical tracks get positive replaygain values.

I believe the Advanced Limiter is redundant if the option 'Use peak info to scale down tracks that still clip after applying replaygain' is checked.

yes, but in that case there is no way to tell if the replaygain is actually doing what it is supposed to do.

iam using +3dB (or 4.5dB when i need to use the headphones, i hope this will change after i get that echo indigo thingy...) for files with rg and -3dB for files without rg (and it most likely wont clip), anyway like mentioned, u can use a limiter.

A Perfect Circle's new album is a good example of positive replaygain. I get +8.3 dB on one track

I get a track here and there that is +x.x db but the only whole albums in my collection that I see get positive albumgain are Ambient discs

Brian Eno's Neroli is something like +10 dB

Yes, many ambient discs are a wonder when it comes to dynamic range To some extend, thats plausible, since overcompressing an ambient-album would basically destroy what ambient is about :-)

- Lyx

http://replaygain.hydrogenaudio.org//faq_quiet.html

Cheers,
David.