I also recall that it only uses the Track level RG if it does use RG at all. It *may* now uses RG tag info, but will use itunes value instead if it exists(but not really sure about this). From reading their forum, I think there are lots of complaints about how SONOS deals with volume normalization. Regarding SONOS, I have one but don't really use it. So its not horrible it's just not the way the artist intended the album to sound from song to song. Apple/itunes has been working this way for years and the average user never even notices this.
So when there is supposed to be a very quiet track relative to some other louder track, the volume normalization would increase the volume of the quiet track. And this would modify the relative volume of each track.
If I use the "Track, Album Gain, & iTunes Track Normalization" what would happen if the iTunes user didn't turn off "use volume normalization" in their Apple device when listening to a complete album? The other big draw for clients is Sonos which I don't believe can read ReplayGain tags but correct me if I'm wrong.What would happen is that the album would be played using Track gain. At least in this case, they can use this and then when playing complete albums, they can simply turn OFF the "use volume normalization" in their apple playback device. So, for your clients you'd want to ask: Do you mostly listen to albums or mostly to random mixture of tracks? If the latter, you'd likely use "Track, Album Gain, & iTunes Track Normalization". It is only programs like dbpa, foobar2000, and a few others that can take RG values and convert them to apple readable volume normalization values. If one was assigning volume adjustments using itunes as ripper, one would ONLY get track level adjustments. Apple playback applies only one value, and you had to choose it way in advance. Unfortunately, with ipods, iphones, itunes, etc. I'm very fond of this "smart gain" approach. If I'm playing an album (or a playlist that has complete albums one after the other), then the player will automatically use "album" RG (in order to maintain the intra-track volume differences which are supposed to be there). If this is selected and I'm playing a mixture of tracks from *different* albums, then the player will automatically use "track" RG (because I'm trying to have the volumes of the tracks about the same). The "smart gain" works in the following way. So one can set the player/program to use only track gain, or only album gain, or a "smart gain". All 3 have a way to use either track gain, album gain, or (most interestingly) "smart" selection that depends on certain things. For example, I use LMS/Squeezeboxes, foobar2000, and Roon Server. Ability to use track and album RG is player dependent. (ability to use track and album versus only one, chosen in advance when writing tag).ģ.
The above is why RG is more flexible than itunes normalization. The 4th option adds RG album value and itunes normalization using the album value.Ģ. Thus the difference in the first two options. This is a single value, thus one must choose to use "track" normalization or "album" normalization for the apple value. an apple device uses itunes normalization. I would appreciate a link to more detailed description of the various options.ġ. *Track, Album Gain, & iTunes Album NormalizationĪlso, I'm confused as to how a media player would use both Track and Album gain settings should both be applied during ripping, is there some priority to which a player would read first, etc. *Track, Album Gain, & iTunes Track Normalization Because the majority of my clients are Apple users I mainly rip in ALAC format and if I want to include iTunes Normalization which setting should I use? In the RG settings there are several options in the Write drop down: I need some guidance on the Write settings to use. I do CD ripping for clients and I've started to think it would be a good idea to include RG tags just in case their media player of choice can read and use them.
I've searched through the forum's and help guides but I didn't really find an answer to my ReplayGain (not RP apply) setting questions.
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