Replay Gain

[bandit]

Hi

Does anyone know how to configure the Replay Gain to listen the same volume on all songs?

 

Thank you very much

[andrewilley]

Have you read the FAQ / User Guide?

Andre

[bandit]

I've already read that post and from what I can see, it's not going to help me with what I wanted. I listen to more than 200 songs taken from many different albums, I couldn't do what the post says one by one but thanks for the help.

[Fitzian]

7 hours ago, bandit said:

I've already read that post and from what I can see, it's not going to help me with what I wanted. I listen to more than 200 songs taken from many different albums, I couldn't do what the post says one by one but thanks for the help.

Pray tell how this is anything but the solution to your issue. You're talking with users who have massive libraries, and I'm not sure what you mean by "one by one". You would have a tool of your choosing scan and add replay gain info to your library in one go. It's literally what track gain is for.

[6b6561]

Annoying thing with PA that you must manually switch between Album and Track Replay Gain, I wish that PA would apply some logic for automatically pick the right gain for how you are listening. I mostly listen to complete Albums and therefore use Album gain, this is a pain those times that I listen to my favorite track playlist. (Sorry for hijacking the thread)

Anyway, as said, you need to have proper RG in your tracks for this to work and that's part of a well maintained library and I have no issues with that in my library with 1000 albums in it.

I think that it has been mentioned that there was some plans for adding automatic RG in Poweramp as part of changes to the current scanner... cant really remember the details.

[6b6561]

Found the old thread, there was plans for a RG scanner but it looks like other features was prioritized.

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[MotleyG]

There are so many existing tools to calculate Replaygain. Why bloat Poweramp as a mobile player with this task?

[bandit]

I'll try to explain it better. In Poweramp I have added a folder with more than 300 songs inside but they are single songs from many different singers and with different volume in many songs, they are not complete albums. That's why I say that if I have to measure the volume of each song to then equalize it, it is a hard task unless something can be done with all the songs at the same time.

[Fitzian]

7 minutes ago, bandit said:

if I have to measure the volume of each song to then equalize it, it is a hard task unless something can be done with all the songs at the same time.

It's a very easy process.

[bandit]

10 hours ago, Fitzian said:

It's a very easy process.

Can you tell me step by step how to play 300 songs at the same volume?

[Fitzian]

1 hour ago, bandit said:

Can you tell me step by step how to play 300 songs at the same volume?

How about broad strokes first:

You need a tool, a replaygain scanner. On Android, foobar2000 mobile app can scan replaygain info and embed these values all into the file tags. On a computer, foobar2000 desktop app can scan replaygain info and embed these values all into the file tags. In your playback app of choice, enable track gain in replaygain settings.

 

It's a pretty straightforward process.

[bandit]

11 hours ago, Fitzian said:

How about broad strokes first:

You need a tool, a replaygain scanner. On Android, foobar2000 mobile app can scan replaygain info and embed these values all into the file tags. On a computer, foobar2000 desktop app can scan replaygain info and embed these values all into the file tags. In your playback app of choice, enable track gain in replaygain settings.

 

It's a pretty straightforward process.

Let's see, what you mean is that through a program/application, such as mp3 gain on windows, I can put all the songs at the same volume? I already knew that, what I was asking from the beginning is if it could be done through Poweramp by putting some values in its corresponding replay gain section and that all the songs are automatically put at the same volume.

[Fitzian]

1 hour ago, bandit said:

 

You are making this more complicated, friend. You didn't ask how to do this in Poweramp. There are many tools to do this, and I suggested one that would work on your Android device, and another via a desktop. It should have been clear, there is no way to just enter some arbitrary value (hundreds of times?) and have the app just make it all up for you. That isn't the process at all.

[andrewilley]

@bandit ReplayGain is a feature that Poweramp can use to adjust playback levels so the peak point in each track is played at the same volume as other tracks, which it does by raising (or more often lowering) the gain for the whole track. The Guide that I linked to in an earlier post tells you how to do that.

Poweramp does not scan and create the ReplayGain tags though, they need to be embedded into the audio files before playing. Foobar2000 is an excellent program/app to do that, as it can be handled as a batch task to do a whole folder (or folders) in one go.

Andre 

[bandit]

I think we are not understanding each other, it's my fault, probably because of the language. I have installed foobar2000 but the sound is nothing like Poweramp, much worse and regarding equalizing the volume in all the songs through replay gain in Poweramp, I will study what Andrew told me although I see it difficult to achieve it because I am not good at these things, thanks to everyone for the help.

[MotleyG]

17 minutes ago, bandit said:

I have installed foobar2000 but the sound is nothing like Poweramp, much worse

The suggestion to use Foobar Mobile was to use the Replaygain calculation feature. Listening between FB2K and PA is subjective but that is a different story.

If you have access to do this on a PC, that is the easiest and most effective way to update an entire library with both Track and Album gain calculations.