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Support and General Use => Audio Playback, Database and Playlists => Topic started by: 777funk on August 21, 2012, 01:36:36 PM

Title: possible to boost the volume of low output tracks to equal loud tracks
Post by: 777funk on August 21, 2012, 01:36:36 PM
Some tracks weren't mixed correctly and have low outputs. Is there a way to boost these so that when I'm on shuffle and a weak mixed track comes on it'll be fixed to be at it's optimum level?

I'm not wanting to take away a songs dynamics but I'd like the loudest part of every song to be right before clipping (optimized).

Is this possible.
thanks!
Nick
Title: Re: possible to boost the volume of low output tracks to equal loud tracks
Post by: saratoga on August 21, 2012, 01:38:29 PM
Yes, this is the purpose of replaygain, a standard for playing tracks at equal loudness that rockbox supports.  If you scan your files to add replaygain info using a player like foobar2000 on your PC, then enable "track gain" in rockbox all files will have equal perceived loudness.
Title: Re: possible to boost the volume of low output tracks to equal loud tracks
Post by: 777funk on August 21, 2012, 01:48:15 PM
Thanks! I had seen ReplayGain and tried it and it didn't seem to help. I guess the reason is that there was no track info there.

So I will need to:
-Delete all the files from the player.
-Scan all files on the computer
-Reload


Title: Re: possible to boost the volume of low output tracks to equal loud tracks
Post by: saratoga on August 21, 2012, 01:49:07 PM
I would scan them directly while on the player, but yes that is the idea. 
Title: Re: possible to boost the volume of low output tracks to equal loud tracks
Post by: 777funk on August 21, 2012, 01:54:24 PM
Ahhh, ok great. I didn't know I could scan on player.

So far this has been great software. Really like it.



Post Merge: August 21, 2012, 03:28:55 PM
Just did this. Looking forward to seeing the results.

So Preamp... do I need to change anything there?


EDIT: Just tried it and it's great! Love this feature. thanks!

And Preamp... now that I scanned all the files on the player for ReplayGain, that feature works. Pretty self explanatory.