DJScope
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Indeed you did... beat me to the press release I helped draft
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Haha! Sorry for stealing your thunder.
Indeed you did... beat me to the press release I helped draft
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Hi,
Does anyone know which tags should be used with MP3 and FLAC files in order to use this new "Replay Gain" feature available in the 1.61 beta firmware?
I've enabled replay gain but it had no effect, so that's why I'm wondering some kind of tagging should be used...
Thanks!
EDIT 1: I just used AIMP3 to add replaygain tags to some MP3 files as a test. Can anyone confirm that X1 will correctly interpret this ID3V2.3 tags?
- REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN
- REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK
- REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN
- REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK
EDIT 2: I just tested adding these tags to some albums mixed with a quite low volume, and the "Replay Gain" feature in X1 still has no effect. I tried setting both "Track" and "Album", and there was no change at all in the loudness...
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Perhaps you can try using an actual Replaygain scanner, such as the one built into foobar2000?
Just an update: in fact the algorithms used by Foobar and AIMP3 to calculate the replaygain are producing different results (see below).
Personally I prefer AIMP3 for many reasons (I believe it is a very good player), but at this point I am not sure which one (AIMP or Foobar) to trust regarding replaygain (probably Foobar is likely the one to be trusted in this case).
Anyway, the good news is that firmware 1.61 is correctly observing the replaygain tags produced both by AIMP3 and Foobard2000!
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Both of them get the peaks right, but obviously each working on a slightly different algorithm to calculate acceptable average. Diff per album is 0.02 dB so nothing even a bat would notice. Track is 0.29 dB, so again unlikely for your ave human to really discern much if any difference.
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