Volume adjustment for albums?

[Nonreality]

Wrong. dbpoweramp does calculate track and album replaygain while ripping...

Since when? I know it shows the options but mine has never done both. Only track. I just dl'd dsp 4 for it so haven't tried that but everytime i've tried to do both I only end up with track. I'm using the latest versions.

[Nonreality]

I didn't realise that. I only recently started using dbpoweramp, and one of the attractions was being able to do away with the extra step of applying RG. Just to make sure I understand, having both boxes ticked does not result in album gain unless this is done separately after ripping?

That is the way mine works. But see above post. I'll have to try the new version of the replay gain. verypsb is saying it does work while ripping and that would be great.

[Nonreality]

Wrong. dbpoweramp does calculate track and album replaygain while ripping...

I just tested my new version and it only applied track gain even though I had both track and album gain checked. Have you gotten both to work or were you just reading the specs? I'd like to know if I have a problem or if it won't do both during a rip. Does just fine if you do replay gain after ripping but it would be nice if it would do both while ripping. One other thing is that I'm using the multi encoder to rip to flac and mp3. I wonder if this could cause the problem. If someone can verify that it does do both during a rip then I'll tear into mine.

Edit: I just ripped without the multi encoder and still no album gain. Really curious now if it does work for some people.

[Peter314]

I just used Foobar to take a look at RG settings for an album ripped using dbpoweramp and without any subsequent processing. It reports an album gain value of -2.82 and track gain as <multiple values>.

So, it does appear that track gain and album gain work for me when ripping with dbpoweramp. Which is nice.

[OffColour]

If Smart Gain is turned on and an album is played, but the songs only have track gain tags and no album gain tags, what happens?

[Nonreality]

If Smart Gain is turned on and an album is played, but the songs only have track gain tags and no album gain tags, what happens?

I believe it defaults to track gain.

[Nonreality]

I just used Foobar to take a look at RG settings for an album ripped using dbpoweramp and without any subsequent processing. It reports an album gain value of -2.82 and track gain as <multiple values>.

So, it does appear that track gain and album gain work for me when ripping with dbpoweramp. Which is nice.

Thanks for verifying, I must have a problem with mine.

[verypsb]

Did you add 'ReplayGain' to the DSP actions, and verified the settings of 'ReplayGain' where you can check 'Calculate Album Gain' & 'Album ID Tag'?

[Nonreality]

Did you add 'ReplayGain' to the DSP actions, and verified the settings of 'ReplayGain' where you can check 'Calculate Album Gain' & 'Album ID Tag'?

yes it's all set right but only does the track gain for some reason. I've posted on the dbpoweramp boards so hopefully I get it figured out. I've upgraded to the 13.2 beta but haven't ripped with it yet.

Edit: I found out it is because of the multi encoder. It will only return track gain for now. Planned to be able to do both in the future. So you need to do replay gain after using the multi encoder.

[chitunes]

What it shows is what is in your tags for the files, respectively (Replay Gain or Apple SoundCheck values).

What it uses is what you specify on a per-player basis:

• No adjustment
• Track-based (also called "Radio") adjustment
• Album-based (also called "Audiophile") adjustment
• "Smart" adjustment (use track-based values normally, album values if consecutive tracks from any one album are played)

The values inside the files are just values calculated by a complex algorithm to make things "sound equally loud", they only affect the music in the file if you choose to apply them in a player.

So you can have the best of it all :-)

Moonbase,

I have both types of tracks, tagged by Replay Gain and not. Yet I get volume adjustment readings for both. I'm confused. If SC uses the RG tags to calculate the adjustment, then where are the non-tagged volume readings coming from? Is SC capable of applying the algorithm on its own?

Appreciate your help on this.