Comment 5 for bug 1509557

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Daniel Schürmann (daschuer) wrote : Re: remember gain adjustments in ReplayGain values

IMHO we cannot reuse the replay gain field from the track meta data.
The replaygain field is somehow tight connected with the a standard algorithm that is uses by the detector, in a way that the player software can rely on a specific target loudness (-18 LUFS reference)
See: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=ReplayGain_2.0_specification

If a user likes a specific track to played on a different loudness for some reasons, this should be not effect the gain value for -18 LUFS.

If the track is not played at -18 LUFS if the replay gain is applied, the detection algorithm may have failed. In this case we may manually adjust the replay gain. But this should happen cautious during preparing a set an not implicit during a set.

Did you checkout https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/520 ?

The new EBU R 128 algorithm may fix your pending issues.

A remaining issue could be that you like to play silent part of a high dynamic track, which is to silent compared to the other tracks.
If we adjust the replay gain for such a track, it is getting worse for the loud part.

What are your issues. An example would be nice.