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Not an issue – just a question! (re ReplayGain) #92

Open DanielTheGreat opened 1 year ago

DanielTheGreat commented 1 year ago

After playing enough of my long playlist of FLAC tracks, I find that fmedia-GUI (under Win7Pro64) doesn't implement Replay Gain stored in the FLAC tags. CAN it use ReplayGain, and (if so) what settings must be changed to achieve this?

If not already included, then I would change this to a feature request rather than 'just a question'!

Thanks for a great, simple player, that works 'out-of-the-box', including sending DTS-encoded FLAC bitstreams to my external surround receiver without needing to make any special settings!

stsaz commented 1 year ago

Hi!

Currently ReplayGain isn't supported, but I think it shouldn't be too hard to implement it.

If not already included, then I would change this to a feature request rather than 'just a question'!

Yes, let's make it a feature request!

P.S. Although I agree this is an important feature, I usually use Dynamic Audio Normalizer filter instead, because it doesn't rely on meta information which can be missing or deceiving. That's why I just thought that there's no point in supporting ReplayGain.

DanielTheGreat commented 1 year ago

Simon,

Thanks for your response.

Regarding the use of Dynamic Audio Normalizer filter, I suspect it would change the data in a DTS audio stream, thus rendering the track as white noise on a surround receiver! I've gone to a lot of trouble to (semi-automatically) 'scale' the audio in the DTS channels to a 'ReplayGain-equivalent' level before encoding them to DTS, so they sound the same volume as my ReplayGain-tagged stereo tracks. My 30,000+ track playlist contains a mix of both stereo and DTS FLAC files, and I don't think that would work with Dynamic Audio Normalization!

For the time being I've switched to another Windows player (that uses ReplayGain), but if you can add this feature and fix a few other minor irritations, I would happily switch back and also make a small donation.

My other minor irritations are concerning the playlist display:

  1. I can't find how to make it automatically scroll as each track finishes, so the currently-playing track is always near the middle of the displayed portion of the list.
  2. When I close fmedia and later open it again, my playlist has gone. I must re-load it and start all over again to find where I left off playing last time. The player should remember this!

Regards, Daniel

(Australia)

From: Simon Zolin @.*** Sent: 12 June 2023 12:09 AM To: stsaz/fmedia Cc: DanielTheGreat; Author Subject: Re: [stsaz/fmedia] Not an issue – just a question! (re ReplayGain) (Issue #92)

Hi!

Currently ReplayGain isn't supported, but I think it shouldn't be too hard to implement it.

If not already included, then I would change this to a feature request rather than 'just a question'!

Yes, let's make it a feature request!

P.S. Although I agree this is an important feature, I usually use Dynamic Audio Normalizer filter instead, because it doesn't rely on meta information which can be missing or deceiving. That's why I just thought that there's no point in supporting ReplayGain.

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stsaz commented 1 year ago

My 30,000+ track playlist contains a mix of both stereo and DTS FLAC files, and I don't think that would work with Dynamic Audio Normalization!

Yeah, using DAN filter on the correctly tagged files with RG would be pointless.

  1. I can't find how to make it automatically scroll as each track finishes,

Not implemented, but I agree it's a nice-to-have feature.

  1. When I close fmedia and later open it again, my playlist has gone.

Is it on v1.31 (the latest version)? Probably fmedia's zstd compression mechanism doesn't work correctly... Please explore to fmedia directory, open cmd there and execute this:

fmedia --gui

and drag-n-drop any audio file into playlist view, then close the window. What's printed in console?

If there's nothing, then exec this:

fmedia --gui -D

and repeat the same procedure and paste the output here.

DanielTheGreat commented 1 year ago

Simon,

Yes, it's v1.31, but it's proving me a liar! :-)

Now when I have a playlist (with one or more files), it DOES re-start with that list still there! I see from your suggested process that it saves the playlist file: C:\Program Files\fmedia>fmedia --gui φfmedia v1.31 (win-amd64) saved file C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming/fmedia/list1.m3uz, 0 kbytes

(Though I wonder how Windows handles the mix of fwd- and back-slashes!)

So my 'wishlist' is reduced to just these three features (the third is 'new' - I haven't mentioned it before):

  1. Implement ReplayGain
  2. Implement playlist auto-scrolling
  3. Gapless playback (there's currently a tiny gap between the bitstreams of one song and the next). This probably requires pre-buffering of the next song in the playlist.

Regards, Daniel

From: Simon Zolin @.*** Sent: 12 June 2023 6:07 PM To: stsaz/fmedia Cc: DanielTheGreat; Author Subject: Re: [stsaz/fmedia] Not an issue – just a question! (re ReplayGain) (Issue #92)

My 30,000+ track playlist contains a mix of both stereo and DTS FLAC files, and I don't think that would work with Dynamic Audio Normalization!

Yeah, using DAN filter on the correctly tagged files with RG would be pointless.

1.  I can't find how to make it automatically scroll as each track finishes,

Not implemented, but I agree it's a nice-to-have feature.

2.  When I close fmedia and later open it again, my playlist has gone.

Is it on v1.31 (the latest version)? Probably fmedia's zstd compression mechanism doesn't work correctly... Please explore to fmedia directory, open cmd there and execute this:

fmedia --gui

and drag-n-drop any audio file into playlist view, then close the window. What's printed in console?

If there's nothing, then exec this:

fmedia --gui -D

and repeat the same procedure and paste the output here.

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