Post by MartinT on Feb 25, 2021 12:51:41 GMT
ReplayGain can be used to normalise the volume between different tracks in order to maintain the same level when listening to music.
What's more interesting to me is that ReplayGain is also a good indicator of music that suffers from loudness wars and compression. If I tap on album artwork in BubbleUPnP I can view the metadata, and included is the ReplayGain figure. The closer to zero, the less it needs turning down and the more likely that it hasn't been compressed (not an exact science, I know). Conversely, a high figure shows it to be very much louder than the average track, and in consequence needs turning down in order not to be deafened.
I have disabled ReplayGain in my playback as I prefer to listen to unadulterated data, but I am finding it a very useful measure of quality. Just now, I listened to Clean Coloured Wire by Engineers and immediately had to turn it down from my usual position. Looking at ReplayGain, it shows a whopping 10.7dB above average. That's a huge variation from normal, and it sounds it. The number is calculated per track, and varies across an album but 10.7 is the worst I've seen so far.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReplayGain
What's more interesting to me is that ReplayGain is also a good indicator of music that suffers from loudness wars and compression. If I tap on album artwork in BubbleUPnP I can view the metadata, and included is the ReplayGain figure. The closer to zero, the less it needs turning down and the more likely that it hasn't been compressed (not an exact science, I know). Conversely, a high figure shows it to be very much louder than the average track, and in consequence needs turning down in order not to be deafened.
I have disabled ReplayGain in my playback as I prefer to listen to unadulterated data, but I am finding it a very useful measure of quality. Just now, I listened to Clean Coloured Wire by Engineers and immediately had to turn it down from my usual position. Looking at ReplayGain, it shows a whopping 10.7dB above average. That's a huge variation from normal, and it sounds it. The number is calculated per track, and varies across an album but 10.7 is the worst I've seen so far.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReplayGain
