dborn
2005-04-13, 06:49
Hi all,
I've opened a new enhancement request for slimserver to support the use of replaygain tags for volume normalization (off, track, album). If you're interested in this feature, here is the link to the bug report: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1368 so that you can vote for it. :-)
I know this has been discussed before and I have searched for an enhancement request in the bugs database and found nothing. Please excuse the duplicate if it's already there.
What I would like to do is "analyse" all my MP3 tracks so that the "track" and "album"-wide normalization tags get written but not actually perform the normalization. This way, I could listen to a single album un-normalized or a playlist containing several albums (played in order) that would be normalized on a per-album basis or I could even have a party-shuffle (or background music, whatever) that I would prefer to have all songs normalized independently.
If I normalize my tracks beforehand, this becomes "permanent" and I cannot choose at playback time. I also prefer leaving my tracks unaltered musically and just have them play at different volumes at playback time only. To me, this seems like the most appropriate use of volume normalisation. And like transcoding from lossless to mp3 to play on a portable player, I can decide to produce a special version "on-the-fly" of volume-normalized files if I wish (and faster too since the analysis and tagging is already done in the source files!)
What do people think about this?
Daniel
I've opened a new enhancement request for slimserver to support the use of replaygain tags for volume normalization (off, track, album). If you're interested in this feature, here is the link to the bug report: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1368 so that you can vote for it. :-)
I know this has been discussed before and I have searched for an enhancement request in the bugs database and found nothing. Please excuse the duplicate if it's already there.
What I would like to do is "analyse" all my MP3 tracks so that the "track" and "album"-wide normalization tags get written but not actually perform the normalization. This way, I could listen to a single album un-normalized or a playlist containing several albums (played in order) that would be normalized on a per-album basis or I could even have a party-shuffle (or background music, whatever) that I would prefer to have all songs normalized independently.
If I normalize my tracks beforehand, this becomes "permanent" and I cannot choose at playback time. I also prefer leaving my tracks unaltered musically and just have them play at different volumes at playback time only. To me, this seems like the most appropriate use of volume normalisation. And like transcoding from lossless to mp3 to play on a portable player, I can decide to produce a special version "on-the-fly" of volume-normalized files if I wish (and faster too since the analysis and tagging is already done in the source files!)
What do people think about this?
Daniel