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General Audio / Re: Replay gain not working properly, audio levels are not norlamized
Last post by rzsolti -
Quote from: ojdo on
Only if you look at the whole albums, which must use the loudest track's correction for the whole album in order to preserve inter-track volume differences, the classical album seems to have a louder finale section. That is not surprising, given that classical music tends to have a huge dynamic range (=loudness differences) within an album.

Thanks, i will try this. However, the courious thing is: the classical music album is just a solo flute + piano, it does not have really load sections, which would make this much album gain nececery.

I usually listen to whole albums, so i thought the album mode made sense
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Bitperfect audio in v2.x?
Last post by Case -
All default outputs in foobar2000 since v1.6 are WASAPI. The bitperfect output you want requires WASAPI exclusive, also supported natively. Just select an output that has "[exclusive]" at the end of the name.
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General Audio / Re: Replay gain not working properly, audio levels are not norlamized
Last post by rzsolti -
my mpd config
#music_directory                "/music"
#playlist_directory             "/playlists"
#db_file                        "/db"
# General music daemon options ################################################
user                            "root"
group                           "root"
###############################################################################
# Input #######################################################################
input {
        plugin "curl"
}
###############################################################################
# Audio Output ################################################################
audio_output {
        type                 "alsa"
        name               "default"
        mixer_control      "SMSL SU-8"
        replay_gain_handler    "software"
}
###############################################################################
# Normalization automatic volume adjustments ##################################
replaygain                      "album"
replaygain_preamp               "0"
###############################################################################
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General Audio / Re: Replay gain not working properly, audio levels are not norlamized
Last post by ojdo -
If you look at track gain for those tracks, they match what you expect: flute+piano are to be corrected only -5.00 dB (=track already is quite silen), while Taylor Swift needs a whopping -12.81 dB reduction (=track is loud).

Only if you look at the whole albums, which must use the loudest track's correction for the whole album in order to preserve inter-track volume differences, the classical album seems to have a louder finale section. That is not surprising, given that classical music tends to have a huge dynamic range (=loudness differences) within an album.

To test this hypothesis, try setting MPD to applying track gain. Now the classical track should sound much closer in volume to Taylor Swift. Applying "Album gain" only makes sense when listening to albums continuously. For most other situations (e.g. shuffling playlists), track gain brings you closer to your goal of maintaining a constant listening volume.
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General Audio / Re: Replay gain not working properly, audio levels are not norlamized
Last post by rzsolti -
My alsa setup:
pcm.softvol {
    type            softvol
    slave {
        pcm         "hw:DAC"
    }
    control {
        name        "SMSL SU-8 Playback Volume"
        card        0
    }
}

pcm.!default {
    type             plug
    slave.pcm       "softvol"
    slave.rate "unchanged"
}
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General Audio / Replay gain not working properly, audio levels are not norlamized
Last post by rzsolti -
In MusicBrainz Picard, i have set the replay gain tags (by album) for my collection, here are the parameters, i have used:
  • target level: -23
  • True peak
  • Max peak: -1
  • Clipping protection: always
In MPD, i have enabled replay gain and set it to use album tags.
So, in theory, everything is perfect, in practice, however, Taylor Swift is loud and classical music is quiet.
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Polls / Re: Sound colors of codecs
Last post by Klymins -
@Sunhillow I join you if sinc interpolation is used, but when you use linear interpolation, the upper frequencies are in harmony with the lower frequencies and this makes the sound very nice for me. So, lower sampling rate does not always mean lower cutoff point. Flash player, for example, uses linear interpolation and this is what makes these 16kbps game musics "listenable" for most people (and what makes the good sounds horrifying when they are ripped from the flash game and opened with a standard player). Try listening something with linear interpolation by installing MultiResampler to foobar2000.

Edit: Or, if you want to easily see an example of a game with 16kbps sounds, go to https://archive.org/details/tails-nightmare .
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Polls / Re: Sound colors of codecs
Last post by Sunhillow -
Quote from: Klymins on
I like MP3's distortions only if the sampling rate is low.
I very much dislike the sound of music when the upper frequency limit is too low. 11 kHz sampling rate sounds like a telephone connection, Plus the added compression artefacts ... horrifying to me.
Then I really would prefer the Leberwurstschnittchen with pickles