[Feature Request] ReplayGain tag support

[thezeroalpha]

ReplayGain tags store info that allows media players to normalize the perceived loudness of audio across files. The media player can read that tag, and amplify or attenuate a given track based on the value. This is nice because you can set your volume to a certain level, and all tracks will play at around that level. ReplayGain values can either be per-track (so each track plays at a certain volume), or per-album (so the whole album plays at a certain level, with tracks in the album at dfferent levels). It would be great if Namida supported this.

(As a follow up, since this would mean implementing gain/attenuation functionality, that could also be exposed to the user as a setting, so they can boost the volume of playback if needed.)

[MSOB7YY]

that's interesting, this might require internal setup for the audio library, gonna check it out. can you provide some 1-2 files that has the replayGain tag? also is it only an ID3v2 tag? (i.e. not available with Media Store)

[thezeroalpha]

Sure, I'm attaching two royalty-free tracks that have both track and album replaygain values, calculated with mp3gain.

There's a few options, the newest format uses only ID3v2 frames, and there's two legacy formats -- here's the spec. The spec also supports Vorbis comments and APEv2. But either way I don't think it's something that would be supported by Media Store, I found a similar discussion in the Auxio repo.

[MSOB7YY]

thanks so much for the detailed report, i will look into this after finishing some stuff with YouTube and local video playback, so it might take some time, thanks again 🌺

[thezeroalpha]

Of course, thanks for your work and openness to feedback! (I'm also the dude from reddit)

[MSOB7YY]

oh coolio! nice to see you here lmao, thank u for ur recommendations and patience too!