I just wondered if there was a 'add-replaygain-info' option in the command-line, because flac supports that... it would be quite usefull, because I am using abcde and am compressing my audio-cds into several formats like flac and mp3 at one time. it would be nice if I didn't had to applay RG afterwards.

This is default at least with the newer versions of LAME, but afaik it is not compatible with foobar's RG tag. So it would be better to add --noreplaygain to your commandline and let foobar write the info.

sorry... for some delay. I am using linux, so foobar is not an option.

The problem is, lame as an encoder itself does only work on file basis, i.e. it can only apply track gain. As most of us may also want album gain and thus refer to foobar, there was probably no will to implement rg as you wish it (with ape tags) into lame... Just guessing...

Well, lame *can* encode a group of files with the --nogap *.wav option. Thus, I've been wondering why it doesn't also compute RG album gain with this, and store it in the lame tag?

It also would be great if lame could optionally store RG info as APE2 tags, as foobar and many other tools expect RG info as such. On the other hand, foobar and mp3gain, etc. could look for RG info in lame tags, but sadly they don't. I guess the problem is that there are no formal standards for this.

Foobar, Otachan mpg123 Input Plug-in for Winamp, Burrrn!, and I think other tools as well handle RG tags equally well in id3v2 tags, which, IMO, are to be preferred because of lack of support for APE2 in hardware digital audio players.

I agree that it would be fine if A) LAME would also be able to compute album RG and B) Foobar and the others could also use RG data from the LAME tag.

Sergio