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XLD transcode and replaygain

Hello folks,

A few month ago I converted all my stuff from m4a apple lossless alac to flac, but today while researching replaygain one thought gave me a fit  :o  :o  :o . I used iVolume with my m4a library (it writes soundcheck into files), so what if when transcoding XLD used this data to adjust actual output files? Though so far my research suggest that it is very unlikely and I had no custom options on during conversion, paranoia has no number on it. I'm unable to find any data concerning replaygain in my flacs at all and while I certainly prefer it this way, I want to be sure not to miss a thing.

Does XLD just dumps soundcheck values with alac to flac conversion?
Thanks for calming me down.

Re: XLD transcode and replaygain

Reply #1 –
SoundCheck is not compatible with ReplayGain, not the way you are suggesting. While it's possible to produce SoundCheck compatible tags from ReplayGain data, it's not really possible to translate them in reverse.

Re: XLD transcode and replaygain

Reply #2 –
Thanks a lot for clarifying this, kode54. Great to know my library is okay.

Re: XLD transcode and replaygain

Reply #3 –
As far as I know, it won't be applying the gain when converting. The most it could possibly do is translate the values to other tags. Well, unless it actually has an option to apply the gain. That sort of feature is usually left disabled by default, since it's destructive to the audio unless you also provide tags to indicate how to undo it, and there's still the issue of least significant bit(s) quantization errors that are not really recoverable when dealing with integer sample formats.

Re: XLD transcode and replaygain

Reply #4 –
Well, I only had "Allow to write ReplayGain tags" checked, but to my knowledge it mostly applies to CD rips, at least I never mass transcoded audio to flac before to know otherwise. But all the fields where it could have been written lack the information, so I'm sure you're right on both accounts.

Great little community you've got here, chief :)

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Reply #5 –
Thanks, even if I mostly earned this role through my ability to clean up messes. Seems I may have started a mess with migrating this forum to a new script, as it may have scared away some of the former readership. Well, assuming none of the original statistics were just spam bots.