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Title: foobar play some songs with a lower volume
Post by: Damne on 2009-07-18 00:28:31

i changed my mp3 player from winamp to foobar, but some songs in my playlist have a lower volume which is not what i want
is there a way to fix it?

Title: foobar play some songs with a lower volume
Post by: odyssey on 2009-07-18 01:01:10

Some of your mp3's probably contains ReplayGain (http://replaygain.hydrogenaudio.org/) tags which is a standard to make all music sound equally loud. With much modern music being mastered at terrible loud levels (see Loudness War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war)), it is often lowered a lot to meet the 89dB ReplayGain default. I know that Winamp has implemented it too, but I'm not familar with it's compatibility with foobar2000.

You can of course disable ReplayGain completely in Preferences (Ctrl+P) under Playback (Set Source mode to None).

My recommendation: You should ReplayGain* all your music and turn up the volume on your amp a bit

* Rightclick file(s) -> ReplayGain -> Scan selection as Albums or Scan per-file track gain. You can even create an autoplaylist that contains all music files that has this missing, to ease batch scanning. Library -> Seach, enter:

Code: [Select]

REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN MISSING

Title: foobar play some songs with a lower volume
Post by: Damne on 2009-07-18 04:15:32

Quote from: odyssey on 2009-07-18 01:01:10

Some of your mp3's probably contains ReplayGain (http://replaygain.hydrogenaudio.org/) tags which is a standard to make all music sound equally loud. With much modern music being mastered at terrible loud levels (see Loudness War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war)), it is often lowered a lot to meet the 89dB ReplayGain default. I know that Winamp has implemented it too, but I'm not familar with it's compatibility with foobar2000.

You can of course disable ReplayGain completely in Preferences (Ctrl+P) under Playback (Set Source mode to None).

My recommendation: You should ReplayGain* all your music and turn up the volume on your amp a bit

* Rightclick file(s) -> ReplayGain -> Scan selection as Albums or Scan per-file track gain. You can even create an autoplaylist that contains all music files that has this missing, to ease batch scanning. Library -> Seach, enter:
Code: [Select]
REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN MISSING

Sir, thank you very much, it's fixed

mange tak

Title: foobar play some songs with a lower volume
Post by: odyssey on 2009-07-18 13:45:06

Anytime. Welcome to the foobar2000 world

HydrogenAudio

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