Hi Everyone

I've got quite a few FLAC files which have Replygain.

Is it possible to remove this from the files or will I have to re-convert to WAV and then encode again to FLAC without Replaygain.I don't like how it quitens most files when played.

One other thing.Does having Replaygain alter the FLAC in anyway or does it only come into effect when played in Winamp.

Thanks In Advance,
Ian

you can remove the tags like so:




no, it's just a tag.

Josh

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you can remove the tags like so:



Thanks,

But I'm a bit confused has to what to do with the command lines.I've only got Flac Frontend???

Just tell the winamp plugin not to use replaygain.

Or whatever device you use to play them back, the replaygain info is doing no harm and you don't have to use it.

Replaygain (rg) info in tags like in FLAC is a good thing, please don't remove them.

In Winamp and in Foobar2000 you can configure easily, how or if replaygain is applied during playing/decoding the flac file.

Ie., you could tell foobar/winamp, just to "ignore" the rg-info.
Or select album gain,
or radio/track gain.

that's one way to look at it. assuming people know about and pay attention to such things. but most people don't know that. so you can't say that replaygain tags are a good thing for someone else's music collection.

replaygain tags can be a somewhat dangerous thing, especially since (obviously) almost no one outside HA seems to understand what they do, when. which means lots of them are probably accidentally added, not necessarily the right way for the source

such as, album replaygain or not? and who knows what the encoder did once it's encoded?

would most people getting the files know the answer to these questions:
- do you decode with flac, flac front end, foobar or winamp?
- do you know whether replaygain is applied to the decoded stream?

IMO, more metadata is rarely a bad thing, regardless of if people know how to use it. Particularly when its something so innoculous as gain control and not something legitmately objectionable like some of the stuff ID3v2.

My perspective anyway.

prbatman:



The winamp plugin contains a preamp slider. You could simply raise the gain a few dB and then get the benifit of volume adjustments without makeing the files quieter then you'd like. Best of both worlds.