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ReplayGain doesn't work #3372

Open Clementine-Issue-Importer opened 10 years ago

Clementine-Issue-Importer commented 10 years ago

From defectos...@gmail.com on December 23, 2012 22:15:00

Noticed recently that some of my music sounds too quiet in Clementine so I have to step up the volume. I then ran a test: took one mp3 file that plays perfectly loud from the collection, forced the ReplayGain tag to be recalculated (tried QtGain and Soundkonverter) and played it. The new file, in which the ReplayGain tag was fresh, was not nearly as loud as the original, i.e. it was quiet. I tried converting it to ogg but got the same result. I then tried Aqualung and it played both the tracks equally loudly, which leads me to think this is an issue with Clementine - could it be that Clementine fails to read the tags? What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I expected that tagging my files would make them play at least as loudly as they used to be played. Instead, they became even more quiet. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Tested with Version 1.1.1-211-gb5afaf6 from clementine-dev ppa on Kubuntu 12.04 64 bit

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/issues/detail?id=3371

Clementine-Issue-Importer commented 10 years ago

From davidsansome on December 23, 2012 15:04:53

Forgive me for asking but I need to check... have you enabled "use replaygain metadata if it is available" in Clementine's preferences?

Clementine-Issue-Importer commented 10 years ago

From defectos...@gmail.com on December 23, 2012 21:59:28

Hello and thanks for the quick reply. Yes, the option is enabled and the tests were done using the same volume level (:

Clementine-Issue-Importer commented 10 years ago

From defectos...@gmail.com on January 04, 2013 10:37:08

Anything on this yet?

decadent commented 10 years ago

Actually, this may be considered expected behavior for ReplayGain, but it's also true that Clementine should take corrective action.

ReplayGain is measured against the level of 89 dB, and most contemporary music is mastered to the level of 96 dB. Thus, music sounds more quiet by default if ReplayGain is taken into account, unless another gain is applied to either ReplayGain-scanned files or unscanned files.

Clementine's shortcoming here is that it doesn't discriminate when applying (or not applying) the gain. To that end, see the issue #4110.