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Looking for something like mp3gain for flac files

Reply #26 –
Have there been any further developments in the past year regarding this? I would like to have an MP3Gain tool for FLAC files, but doesn't seem it's possible. ReplayGain only works on playback, not while burning to CDs or for use with Acid Pro (unlike MP3Gain).

Is my best option if I want to make a mix just convert the FLACs to v0 mp3 and use MP3Gain? I'd prefer to hear the FLAC files on my burnt CD.

Looking for something like mp3gain for flac files

Reply #28 –
Quote from: MinusZero on
Have there been any further developments in the past year regarding this? I would like to have an MP3Gain tool for FLAC files, but doesn't seem it's possible. ReplayGain only works on playback, not while burning to CDs or for use with Acid Pro (unlike MP3Gain).

Is my best option if I want to make a mix just convert the FLACs to v0 mp3 and use MP3Gain? I'd prefer to hear the FLAC files on my burnt CD.


you brought my thread back from the dead!

I *think* most burning programs ask you if you want to use RG tags when burning the album, so you might be able to do it that way.  I had the same question just a few weeks ago.  I don't burn a lot of CDs, so I finally did and wondered how to equalize volume now that the files are FLAC and are not adjusted in the same way MP3gain adjusts in terms of storing volume.  But I looked in my burning program and an option was to apply RG tags when burning a CD.

CDBurnerXP is the program I used, I believe.

I am very happy I went to RG instead of using MP3gain, especially since I have gone through the task of re-ripping to FLAC.  Yes, probably pointless from being able to hear a difference, but I feel better about it.  I like the RG lets you edit the value to whatever you want it to be vs. the 1.5 dB increments of MP3gain.

Looking for something like mp3gain for flac files

Reply #29 –
Quote from: MinusZero on
Have there been any further developments in the past year regarding this?
There will probably never be any developments enabling a volume change applied directly to flac data like there is for mp3 data.

Quote from: mattdm11 on
I *think* most burning programs ask you if you want to use RG tags when burning the album, so you might be able to do it that way.
How many burning programs offer RG?  I think only a tiny few.  The one I'm most familiar with, Burrrn will always scan the audio even if the RG data is present.

Quote from: mattdm11 on
I like the RG lets you edit the value to whatever you want it to be vs. the 1.5 dB increments of MP3gain.
If you were comparing the volume between the same track I could see this as more of an issue, but we don't use RG this way.  RG is intended to make different tracks (or albums) have the same volume.  As such you are no longer comparing apples to apples.  FWIW, I too moved away from MP3Gain because I now have my collection as lossless with RG tags which I can use to scale the volume prior to conversion to mp3.  The main benefit for me is speed.  MP3Gain is quite slow, especially when compared to the speed at which foobar2000 performs the same task (which is still not as fast as not doing it at all).

Looking for something like mp3gain for flac files

Reply #30 –
For this CD I'm burning I have a mixture of mp3's and FLACs.

Because there is no manual adjustment on ReplayGain in foobar, are all RG files set to 89dB by default? If so, I was thinking I could apply RG to the FLAC files, and apply MP3Gain of 89dB to my mp3's and they'd end up sounding similar in volume. Then I could re-encode the FLACs with this RG information, and all files would be ready for burning in Nero.

Does this sound feasible?

Looking for something like mp3gain for flac files

Reply #31 –
OK, I applied ReplayGain to a FLAC file in foobar, made a copy of it, and decoded that to a wav using FLAC frontend, but the wav doesn't show the applied RG difference in volume, even though I ticked the ReplayGain box 

Anyone know why this didn't work?

Looking for something like mp3gain for flac files

Reply #32 –
Quote from: MinusZero on
made a copy of it, and decoded that to a wav using FLAC frontend
You don't need to make a copy of it, but you do need to do the FLAC>WAV conversion in foobar2k with ReplayGain enabled in the converter dialogue (not just for playback - that's a separate option).

Cheers,
David.

Looking for something like mp3gain for flac files

Reply #33 –
Quote from: MinusZero on
OK, I applied ReplayGain to a FLAC file in foobar, made a copy of it, and decoded that to a wav using FLAC frontend, but the wav doesn't show the applied RG difference in volume, even though I ticked the ReplayGain box 

Anyone know why this didn't work?


You should probably read that post I linked above.  Its pretty clear how to make this work.