UpdRG

2011-10-07 18:09:06

Re-encoding my music collection isn't an issue to me. But supplying with the appropriate replay gain info is.

I have written a little piece of software that helps. It may help people in the same situation.

My situation is:

For volume control I use foobar for supplying track replay gain information, and have foobar change the mp3 audio data correspondingly as I don't use RG on the player side (to be independent of RG aware players).
It happens rather often that I edit the RG info manually because the RG automatic is not appropriate, for instance when I want a quiet track to play quietly.
So the problem when re-encoding is re-editing the manually edited tracks.

My little piece of software is a quick Excel hack UpdRG.xls.
UpdRG.xls expects 2 folders:
a) an in-folder containing the re-encoded tracks, with track RG info as created by foobar (but NOT applied to mp3 data).
b) a template-folder with the old mp3 tracks (which have the appropriate volume because of former RG activities). Before using UpdRG.xls fooobar must have computed the track RG info for these tracks.

You supply the folder names in the Excel Spreadsheet and press the 'Update RG' button.

The RG track info of all the mp3 files in the in-folder is updatet, so that after applying them to the mp3 data via foobar, the volume of the re-encoded tracks is the same as that of the old tracks.

You can download UpdRG.xls from here.

UpdRG

Reply #1 – 2011-10-07 22:08:15

Sorry, I ran into an error situation with UpdRG.xls.

The software is corrected. With the download link you get the corrected version.