I agree with Rusty that it is a matter of personal choice whether you show the absoute level as adjusted or just the suggested Replay Gain adjustment. I guess the question that begs to be answered is if you were to analyze half your collection with a target of 89db and the other half with a target of 83db, showing the delta from the 'norm' would be a problem because you have 2 different 'norms'.
I agree that there are many questions related to Monkey's inplementation of Replay Gain which aren't fully discussed in the documentation. Don't get me wrong, I love Monkey and I can appreciate that a lot of time goes into it's ongoing development and keeping documentation current is always a pain in the ass. I also appreciate that you can't provide details on everything in the documentation.
Here's a post that raised several questions that never got answered:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... &sk=t&sd=a
I am assuming that ketchupkid read this thread and has gone to the same sources I did to try to figure out some details on volume leveling. If not and for those that haven't it may be an interesting read.
Besides the questions raised in that thread, I can't find any information on what the "Clipping Prevention" check box in the Volume Leveling Options does. Does this prevent clipping when determining the Replay Gain Adjustment or does it prevent clipping on playback when Volume Leveling on Playback is selected? Is this effectively the "Hard Limiting" discussed in the Replay Gain documentation where the peak level for a track is stored in the header and then if Hard Limiting/Clipping Prevention is selected the Replay Gain Adjustemnt is further adjusted so that there is no clipping of the peak level?
As suggested in the other thread, I think that it would be really cool if there was a way to show what tracks would result in clipping if volume levling was applied on play back. I understand that that would likely be dependent on the target play back level relative to the target level used to analyze the tracks and whether you were using Album Leveling vs. Track Leveling (btw, I assume that these are analagous to the concepts of Radio and Audiophile in the Replay Gain discussion). But if there were a way to show if clipping were to occur for the tracks based upon the current settings, that would be really helpful in playing with the settings, both the vloume analyzing and target play back.
Lastly to ketchuplid's question related to whether the volume analysis uses the old standard of 83db or the 'new' standard of 89db, I assume that that depends on the target level set in the options. Is that correct?
Any details on these points would be helpful, also any feed back about the clipping ideas would be helpful. If people think it would be helpful, I would try to get it added to the wishlist.
with the whole volume leveling world. I have just spent over three hours reading about "db" levels as indicated in various MP3 apps, like MM and Goldwave, etc. I checked over 30 links from a general Google search - many are several years old; I checked the volume (no pun intended) of info at Wikipedia and I have done thorough searches in help files and online knowledgebases of MM. No one really seems to know how to explain db levels so an average college grad can understand.
