Replaygain tags read by MediaMonkey?

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by Steegy » Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:02 pm

Jiri already confirmed this recently: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 2134#72134 So it's good news!

by Teknojnky » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:58 pm

Can you confirm if that reading/using/analyzing album gain tags will be in mm 3?

8)

by jiri » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:28 pm

Some clarification about this:

In MM 2.5 - only RVA2 frame is used.

In MM 3.0, it will work like this:

In order to fix a problem in RVA2 storage in MM 2.5 and maintain backward compatibility, RVA2 frames are no longer written by MM 3.0. The following will be read from MP3s (higher priority first):

1. TXXX text comment frames (as used e.g. by Foobar)
2. RGAD frame - as specified in Replay gain standard (but doesn't seem to be used much)
3. RVA2.

The following fields will be written to MP3s:
1. RGAD frame.
2. TXXX text comment frames.

Jiri

by orangejulio » Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:18 pm

Al_G wrote:
orangejulio wrote:Even though it's not the technically correct way to apply album gain, it looks like it'll get the job done - and I'm getting tired of spending too much time troubleshooting my MP3s.
orangejulio,

If you're up for it, you might want to take a look MP3gain, http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/. When I mentioned Foobar, it is what I'm using for flac files. I use MP3Gain for mp3 files. For troubleshooting mp3 files, MP3Library http://www.jumpingcholla.com/jce_trapper.htm has a good analyze function.
I did try MP3gain as well, but I decided that I'd rather use something that only modified tags and didn't alter the gain field of each frame. It does sound like it works well and is generally reversible, but I am not entirely comfortable with it. If the MP3Library can't find the problem, I will take Lowlander's advice and send in one of the corrupted MP3s. Thanks...

Right now I'm devoting myself to re-ripping everything in FLAC. It's pretty easy to do while I'm at work, since all I have to do is swap CDs every time it finishes. It's going very quickly.

by Lowlander » Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:36 am

Should yes! Does it? I don't know.

by Big_Berny » Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:16 am

@Lowlender: Should MediaMonkey support the standard replagain-tags?

by Lowlander » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:58 am

You might want to send a Foobar'd leveled song to MediaMonkey support as maybe MediaMonkey has a bug not supporting the Foobar'd leveling. Of course it does sound more like a bug in Foobar.

by Al_G » Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:04 am

orangejulio wrote:Even though it's not the technically correct way to apply album gain, it looks like it'll get the job done - and I'm getting tired of spending too much time troubleshooting my MP3s.
orangejulio,

If you're up for it, you might want to take a look MP3gain, http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/. When I mentioned Foobar, it is what I'm using for flac files. I use MP3Gain for mp3 files. For troubleshooting mp3 files, MP3Library http://www.jumpingcholla.com/jce_trapper.htm has a good analyze function.

by orangejulio » Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:53 pm

After all that, it was a problem with my work network. Since it didn't work either way, I thought the link was dead. From home, it's fine with the exclamation mark. As always, I appreciate everyone's time and help.

Interestingly enough, I have decided to not get so deep into it and just use MediaMonkey's built-in levelling. I found that some of my tracks would no longer play in MediaMonkey or WMP after I foobar'd the replay gain. They play fine in foobar, but it does me no good if they don't in other software. I'm reverting back to a copy of my original, ungained MP3's, and just applying the MM track gain to them. I will probably run the album script mentioned above. Even though it's not the technically correct way to apply album gain, it looks like it'll get the job done - and I'm getting tired of spending too much time troubleshooting my MP3s. It's kind of ironic...a week ago, I was blissful ignorant...and now, after finding MediaMonkey and spending too much time on these forums, I've decided to re-rip all of my CDs losslessly and use MM to transcode down as necessary. I had myself convinced that my MP3s were good enough, but too much A/B between my MP3s and some newly ripped FLACs have pulled me over to the dark side. Great...

Thanks again to everyone that responded!

by Steegy » Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:27 pm

Try pasting the url "http://otachan.com/in_!mpg123.html" in the address space for your webbrowser, but without the quotes. The ! has to be in it.

by orangejulio » Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:57 pm

You are right, I did not know to strip out the !. However, it's still not working, but our network at work restricts access to a lot of pages. I will check it out at home. Thanks!

by Teknojnky » Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:40 pm

Oh!

yes probably hah 8)

by Big_Berny » Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:24 pm

Maybe he also meant my link which has a ! in it...

Big_Berny

by Teknojnky » Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:57 pm

strange it works for me, ill edit for a proper link and see if that works for ya..

by Big_Berny » Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:04 pm

You have to copy&paste the link!
And as Teknojnky said, I've written a script to calculate albumgains. Although it's not possible to switch quickly between albumgain and trackgain.

Big_Berny

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