Hey all,

I noticed that when you do a conversion to another format, (namely lame mp3, nero aac and itunes aac) the volume changes in the generated files. What I mean is:
1) replay-scan source files
2) convert
3) replay-scan dst files

The values, both track and album-gain, for the destination files will be different than these for the source files. Often they will even go above 1.0, which is where clipping occurs. Does anybody know why this would be so?

Here is an explanation by Pio2001 why this occurs.