Rockbox based Replaygain scans?

[djrichwoods]

I ended up breaking down and using my wife's laptop to do the replaygain manipulation on my files using foobar...

I don't like it though as now when I load songs to my player (30+ a month from my emusic subscription) I have to then plug the player into my wife's laptop and mess with them there...

Eventually though I'd like to do everything on the mac...

Thanks all for your replies... except for dunno...  

[AlexP]

Hmmm, well I had a quick google, and you do seem to be a bit stuck on Mac.

Get on at the developers of your favourite media software and make them include replaygain scanning!

[DefineByte]

I think Play will do what you want.

[cc]

I believe Amarok also has scripts which can scan and apply ReplayGain tags.

I looked at Amarok to do this (on Linux, but it also can be installed on OSX - not for the faint hearted now, but OSX will be supported in the next version)...

but the Amarok uses mp3gain (or its close cousin aacgain) to do the work, so I think this means it can only put the replay gain into APE tags, so it no use for rockbox.

I am a bit confused about this APE tags in mp3 files thing - what I've gathered is that there is a parser in rockbox now, but that it isn't used for replay gain?

[saratoga]

I am a bit confused about this APE tags in mp3 files thing - what I've gathered is that there is a parser in rockbox now, but that it isn't used for replay gain?

Unless you install the APEv2 + MP3 patch, its only used to parse formats which natively support APEv2.  The patch enables it for mp3 too.

[Multiplex]

I don't know much about the playback engine (I did look once and I realised how far down the software engineering skills ladder I am ...) but I was wondering how practical it would be to do the scan while playing the file anyway, and once the first play is done the setting could be calculated and the tag written. That would only work for track (not album) RG though.

[ell1ps1s]

I think Play will do what you want.

Play does exactly what you want, and it stores the ReplayGain information in id3v2 tags.

(Sorry to repeat a link that's been mentioned twice above, but I think it's worth reinforcing that there is a straightforward solution for Mac users.)

[DefineByte]

I should read more carefully. Didn't notice it was posted before.