what is replay gain and how does it work

[dgb52]

Can someone tell me what replay gain does on the fuze?

and how it works?

[Dhraakellian]

Replay gain basically scans the audio files and adds tags telling the player how much to automatically adjust the volume.

In album mode, each album has the same overall volume.
In track mode, each track has the same overall volume, regardless of how loud a track is in relation to the rest of its album.

For a more thorough explanation, linky.

[13dp]

Will it work without rockbox? Does album or song play all at the same volume? Should I adjust the pre gain? Its set at 4.5db.
I dont have rockbox , I have V-2, just got it today and couldnt find replay gain in the manual.

Thanks
13Dp

[Marvin the Martian]

Originally Posted by 13dp

Will it work without rockbox? Does album or song play all at the same volume? Should I adjust the pre gain? Its set at 4.5db.
I dont have rockbox , I have V-2, just got it today and couldnt find replay gain in the manual.

Thanks
13Dp

This might help you out some.....http://forums.sandisk.com/sansa/boar...hread.id=23310

[Pauliwog]

After spending hours with MP3 Gain normalizing my collection, Sansa comes out with this. Oh, well; better late than never.

[Marvin the Martian]

Of course, my Zen Mozaic does this for you, with something they call "Smart Volume".(granted, the Mozaic doesn't sound as good as a Clip or Fuze) This would be a nice addition to the Clip, and a lot less hassle for the user than the Replay Gain option on the Fuze (which I haven't bothered with since I don't shuffle all with it).

[dfkt]

"Smart Volume" is certainly not very "smart", compared to Replaygain or MP3Gain. I've listened to it a bit, and it really doesn't work well - like your average dynamic compressor. I've also read it uses a lot of battery life (can't verify that since I only tried it for a short time). But on the other hand it's a simple setting on Creative players, with no external apps or knowledge about Replaygain involved. I think it would be better doing it right on a universal level, the Replaygain/MP3Gain treatment, instead of some proprietary solution that only works on one player.

[Marvin the Martian]

Originally Posted by dfkt

"Smart Volume" is certainly not very "smart", compared to Replaygain or MP3Gain. I've listened to it a bit, and it really doesn't work well - like your average dynamic compressor. I've also read it uses a lot of battery life (can't verify that since I only tried it for a short time). But on the other hand it's a simple setting on Creative players, with no external apps or knowledge about Replaygain involved. I think it would be better doing it right on a universal level, the Replaygain/MP3Gain treatment, instead of some proprietary solution that only works on one player.

I don't doubt that it's not as good a solution. But I'm using that player primarily to shuffle all through the aux-in on the stereo at work, where not being suddenly blasted by a much louder song is more important, and overall fidelity is less important, given all the background noise.

[manoz]

This feature is pretty awesome and I've gone through my music library selectively choosing which I want to apply gain too. It is a bit unpredictable though and I've added gain to songs I'd rather not have gained. Anyone know how I can delete the replay gain data on some tracks? I've tried both media monkey and winamp to no avail!

[dfkt]

Do you mean Replaygain or MP3Gain?

Use Foobar2000 to remove Replaygain info from files, it's the easiest way. Otherwise you could use commandline tools like metamp3.

To remove MP3Gain info, just undo it with MP3GainGUI.

[manoz]

Originally Posted by dfkt

Do you mean Replaygain or MP3Gain?

Use Foobar2000 to remove Replaygain info from files, it's the easiest way. Otherwise you could use commandline tools like metamp3.

To remove MP3Gain info, just undo it with MP3GainGUI.

Cheers, I will try Foobar2000, I meant ReplayGain btw.

[saratoga]

You're supposed to scan all your files with replaygain, not just certain ones. Doing that will cause annoying jumps in volume. Rather then remove the values, just select each file in foobar, and rescan them.