replaygain on mixed collections =bad
Submitted by Ash
Link to original bug (#335073)
Description
If some of my music is replaygained and some isn't (possibly some is in a format that doesn't contain RG info/gstreamer doesn't read it), and I have a selection of this music in a playlist then replaygain support causes more problems than it solves by making some tracks sound quite and some really loud! This is also a problem when shuffling through a music collection.
There are a few possible fixes...
- Only use replaygain when not shuffling (doesn't cover a few cases).
- Have an option to disable replaygain - even just a gconf toggle would help!
- Allow the replaygain target volume ot be adjusted.
- Adjust the volume of non-replaygained files by some tunable amount (foobar2000, rather usefully, does this).
- Include a replaygain scanner that stores RG data in the db and in tags where applicable (could be an option to automatically scan files without info).
Other information: If Rhythmbox could scan files and store data in the db this would, of course, solve the problem completely and format-independently. Support could then be added gradually for reading/writing replaygain tags (there aren't any formal standards for this bit).
Version: 0.9.x