Hi guys,

I've tried to Google this topic for about half an hour now, and I thought I'd turn to the expertise on this forum.

When ripping, I prefer to go the avenue of having individual files for tracks instead of the single CD+cuesheet approach. I guess I'd like to be able to click on an individual file to play the song instead of opening an entire disc and then playing the song. This seems like an easier way to cue up files from different CDs.

Encoding with FLAC, however, it seems that you can only calculate ReplayGain data for the single tracks, but that sometimes doesn't work out, especially for the classical CDs that I have which have tracks with pretty different dynamics. What I'd really like to do is to calculate album gain for the entire disc, but still be able to have separate, single tracks. Is that possible?

The only thing I can think of is to somehow have EAC calculate the album gain before ripping and then pass that data to the FLAC encoder, but I don't know if that's possible.

Any help/advice would be very appreciated!

.d

Flac can handle album gain but only if all the tracks that constitute the album are presented in a single command line which isn't compatible with EAC's way of doing things.

I am not well versed in the various helper programs that have been created to expand what can be done with EAC. Maybe they can handle album gain.

Otherwise, if you don't want to deal with the command line, I'd suggest using something like Speek's flac frontend or foobar2k. Both of these work very well.

You can easily calculate and add replay gain tags afterwards with foobar2000. It can make album and track replay gain tags so that you can decide what to use on playback stage.

Awesome, thanks guys! I just tried using Foobar2k's replaygain features, and they seem to work well.