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New playback mode for replaygain

Hello
Replaygain is a fantastic tool, but has also some problems: the bigest for me, is what mode to choose.
If you choose Track gain, the loudness differences between tracks are not preserved.
But if you choose album, and if you listen some albums with big dynamic differences it will sometime not work: who has never met a track with a track gain of +15 althought the album gain is at -5 ? The result is that in album mode you won't hear anything.
So i had a simple idea: would it be possible to create a new playback mode like "TrAlbum mode" which would set the gain for the track somewhere like the mean between the track and album gain (perhaps there could be better formulas), so that some of the gain difference between the tracks is preserved.

What do you think ?

(sorry for my english)

New playback mode for replaygain

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If the track gain is +15 and the album gain is -5, then this is how the artist wanted you to (not) hear the music. If you were listening to the CD, then there would be this large jump in volume. The idea of album gain is to preserve the experience.

The only reason I can think of that there would be this large discrepancy in volumes between two tracks on the same album which is not the same as the CD, is if the track had been ripped from two different sources ie. not your original CD.

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If the track gain is +15 and the album gain is -5, then this is how the artist wanted you to (not) hear the music. If you were listening to the CD, then there would be this large jump in volume. The idea of album gain is to preserve the experience.


Yes, but in domestic environnements, this can be problematic, this is why i think that a new mode that would mix the advantages of both methods (track and album), would be useful for some people like me. It's a question of choice, i didn't say it should replace the other modes.

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