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Bug 133881 - replaygain always uses album gain if available
replaygain always uses album gain if available
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 512788
Product: rhythmbox
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
HEAD
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: RhythmBox Maintainers
RhythmBox Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-02-09 12:21 UTC by noa
Modified: 2010-02-07 09:56 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description noa 2004-02-09 12:21:13 UTC 
I'm very happy to see replaygain support in rhytmbox 0.7. However, it would
be nice to have a configuration option to select weather album gain or
track gain should be used to set the volume.

This is configurable in xmms :)
Comment 1 Christophe Fergeau 2004-04-16 18:34:52 UTC 
Isn't album gain "better" than track gain?
Comment 2 noa 2004-04-16 19:42:59 UTC 
Nah.. some albums has one track that is much louder than the others, just as an
effect. When you random songs from a long list all the other tracks from that
album will play on a more silent level than other songs because of that one loud
track that lowers the album gain.

Album gain is for listening to whole albums and getting the experience that the
album creator was aiming for. When mixing tracks from different albums you
almost always want track gain instead and get smaller differences in volumes.
Comment 3 Christophe Fergeau 2004-04-16 23:01:21 UTC 
Ok, so instead of a configuration option, track gain could be used in random
mode and maybe in playlists, while album gain would be used in non random mode.
This should work for you, wouldn't it ?
Comment 4 Rob Adams 2005-01-31 17:59:43 UTC 
Having it be smart enough to use the track gain or album gain as appropriate
would kick ass.  Definitely the GNOME way of doing it.
Comment 5 Jonathan Matthew 2010-02-07 09:56:31 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 512788 ***