The background music is Mantovani - [Mantovani's Golden Hits LP #07] Greensleeves ReplayGain is something you didnt know you needed. It will save your life!
I LOVE FOOBAR 2000 specifically for this feature. The software gives me so much control over the sound. But as you showed, some tracks cannot be helped. They have been overly compressed during production (the Loudness war). Those tracks are hard to listen to for me at any level. What I have found is that when I back off on the volume of the digital stream before it hits my DAC and then use the amplifier after the DAC to control the volume, it sounds so much more dynamic and less straining to listen to for hours, especially when I am listening critically through my headphones.
Thanks for the quick reply, the track gain is still -0.57 dB, where as almost all of my other tracks are ~-8 dB, so i will need to use an audio editor, and then apply replaygain.
Yes. Quiet albums get louder. BUT if you compile your own albums with songs from different sources and volumes, then you would need to use Track Gain instead of Album Gain. Album gain retains volume differences inside albums, but track gain adjusts songs individually, thus making sure your own mixes and compilations sound the same. If you think the 89dB that ReplayGain aims for is too quiet or too loud, I think you then need to adjust the files themselves with an audio editor.
Oh, well im not sure if it is the fault of the .mp3 or something like that, but the song is very quiet, and i needed to increase the volume of it, yes. I was wondering if i could do it with replaygain, but i used goldwave to crack the volume just a bit and now it's good :)
I'm not sure what that loudness equalization actually is, but it sounds like it reduces dynamic range. That would be a fundamental change in the sound that flattens the sound inside the song. ReplayGain would just bring down the average volume, while keeping the natural fluctuations of volume inside it untouched. Dynamic range equalization is basically best heard on radio, where silence is just as loud as noisy parts of songs. If you are used to such sound, then Replaygain will sound completely different (it sounds as it should sound, basically)
Thanks for the video, i was looking for a clear explanation for replaygain, and am too lazy to read. It was clear to me that it is a simple solution to volume differences in songs. But i have one problem, i have a few songs in my collection that are too silent, will replaygain somehow help me increase the gain of my songs, or is it just to decrease them? (I use foobar2000 too)
Track plays back the measured track gain and Album plays back with the average album gain. If you listen to single random tracks, use track, but if you listen to whole albums at once, use album.
Mm so you are trying to make some songs sound louder than others? The -x.xdB figure simply tells you how much lowering was needed to reach the average of 89dB. In the end, -1 or -12dB, they should sound similar.
Popart 2015 No, you have to select the files and apply it to them. If you want to normalize a bunch of random songs, select them all, right click and apply ReplayGain Track Gain. If you want to apply it to a complete album, you select Album gain, so the internal differences within album tracks remain the same, but the overall volume is normalized.
I use Rhythmbox to transfer music to my dap and use lollipop because of its UI and kid3 for tag editing lol I tried dead beef but didn't really like it. I tried the wine version of foobar and aimp but their pretty limited so I just run a native program. It takes two but I'm fine with it.
@@scummymulisha I use PuddleTag for editing tags and filenames and Fre:ac to break apart flac albums. Deadbeef takes a lot of tweaking to build a good GUI, once you got it you can then backup the files and restore it.
