Comment 5 for bug 807944

On 14/07/2011 01:25, ubeagle wrote:
> However, I just noticed that when I turn off the ReplayGain plugin in
> Rhythmbox, the FLAC file sounds louder, too. So with the enabled plugin
> Rhythmbox seems to reduce the volume of every file - whether they have a
> replaygain tag or not.
>
> Now I am confused. Two questions come to mind:
> 1) Isn't it possible just to read out the gain tag of FLAC files like the metaflac command and apply the volume when playing? (Is there actually a player which can do that?)
> 2) If the answer to question no. 1 is no and there will be no way to do this in Banshee... is there a similar "ReplayGain" plugin (as there is in Rhythmbox) for Banshee which just normalises all songs to an average volume when playing?
>

I've always found mp3gain a bit weird. Could you try comparing an ogg file with
the flac instead? You can use vorbisgain to calculate RG stuff for ogg files.

What you could also do is compare the volumes of the same flac file with and
without the RG tags present.

As for your questions..
1) Don't Banshee and Rhythmbox both do exactly that with RG enabled? Technical
details: they both use the rgvolume GStreamer element to handle the reading of
replaygain tags. I think it doesn't work quite right with mp3gain tags (they're
not really standard anyway -- the MP3 standard does not support replaygain).

2) No such thing.

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin