I'm sorry if this has been awnsered somewhere else. I did a search and all that came up was how to APPLY gain.

Here's what happened. I was using foobar, playing with the various features see what it does. Then i tried the replaygain feature, checked the "use peek info to scale down tracks that still clip after applying replaygain". In my playlist, i had lots of files with different gain levels, originally. Then all hell breaks loose and now all my files sound HORRIBLE. I tried setting the replaygain mode: disabled, but the changes made to my files were still there. I tried replaying the files with other audio players and the problem is still there.

As i understand, these gain settings are saved in metadata, so my original file is still in there right? Is there a way to undo all these changes and set them back to normal, exactly the way they were before? Like removing the metadata entry or something?

I tried mp3gain, but as i understand it, that program only readjusts the gain, and i don't want that, i want my original files back. Besides, the program doesn't load files with unicode names or in ogg format, and i have a lot of those.

PLEASE HELP

This sounds more like a foobar2000 support request so posting in the foobar2000 forum would have been a better idea imho.

Removing replaygain information from files is really easy with foobar2000: just put all replaygained files into a playlist, select them all and right click --> ReplayGain --> Remove Replaygain info from files.

Thanks!! I was really panicking right there. I don't know how i ended up in this forum, just followed the link from the foobar page, sorry if i'm at the wrong place.

EDIT: i don't see "replaygain" when i rightclick

I am under XP
foobar2000 v.0.8.3
i did the Lite install

is there a component i am missing here?

How did you replaygain your files in the first place if there's no replaygain entry? You need at least foo_rgscan in your components folder.

i did it this way:

foobar2000 > preference > playback > replaygain

This doesn't do anything until you actually added replaygain information to your files by scanning them. Playback shouldn't be any different for you.

well, then i don't know how it got that way but now my audio IS trashed

can you tell me where i can get this foo_rgscan dll?

If you right click one of these files and select "properties" do you see any replaygain related information in the "technical information" box on the right side? If there is none my previous posting should be correct.

You can add the replaygain scanner component by installing fooba2000 again (doing a full install ensures that the replaygain scanner is included).

indeed, there is nothing refering to replaygain in the technical information

i tried playing the file through another sound source (i have a usb soundcard and an internal one) and it played fine in the other one

i restarted my computer, now the levels are fine again, odd (whew, that was the scare of my life, almost)

i'd still like to know why it happened
does foobar save these replaygain settings to the file? how can i make sure it is clean of it? i heard they save it to ape tags, how do i remove those?

1) As I already said, foobar2000 saves replaygain information after having scanned the files (right click --> Replaygain --> Scan ... (track or album gain)). Since you never did that theres no information in the files which foobar2000 needs to adjust the volume.

2) foobar2000 saves the information in the appropriate tagging format. That can be ape tags (for monkey's audio, mpc, mp3, ...) but don't have to (vorbis, flac, mp4, ...).

3) You can remove replaygain information the way I pointed out in a previous reply.

And 4) The replaygain mode setting in preferences gets saved only in the foobar2000 configuration. Changing it does not alter any audio files.

Alright, i'll do a full install and see what options could help

EDIT: did the full install, saw the replaygain tab, now everything is good
thanks for the help