I'm burning backup copies of original CDs from flacs on my computer. Will using replaygain in the burning process result in a noticeable loss of quality? From searching I understand that it won't be lossless, replaygain.org seems to suggest that the quality lost is proportional to the dB change required.

Thanks

Although the ReplayGain process can effect an increase in volume, it is usual, particularly in these days of high volume compressed CDs, for the volume to be reduced. The effect is essentially the same as turning down the volume on your HiFi.

Where it differs, however, is that with your HiFi, when you then increase the volume you will once again hear information that was too quiet to hear when the volume was lower. With the replaygained tracks, you may not recover that very quiet information as it may have been 'lost' in the process. In practice, though, I don't believe that anyone has been able to document any examples where this has occurred to the point where a difference can be heard, certainly not at normal listenning levels.

Ok. So a particular piece of information would have to be of less volume than the required change to be lost. I think I can put up with that

What about the very few albums that have to get bumped up in volume? Will that cause problems? I guess they're usually getting bumped up by so little that I could leave most of them anyway.

Cheers

Well if you're increasing the volume from that of the original, there won't be any loss of detail, will there!

Haha, right, thanks