Support ReplayGain, auto-volume-leveling

[gfy]

Use ReplayGain to reduce track-track volume difference.

 

[WiiM Support]

Hi gfy,

Thank you for your suggestion! This feature is already on our roadmap, and we’re planning to release it in late October. Stay tuned for updates!

 

[pjorgenunes]

Hi gfy,

Thank you for your suggestion! This feature is already on our roadmap, and we’re planning to release it in late October. Stay tuned for updates!

It is also very importan to enable "Album Gain" replay gain option. For all albums one one's library to have same perceived loudness.

 

[slartibartfast]

It is also very importan to enable "Album Gain" replay gain option. For all albums one one's library to have same perceived loudness.

Definitely. I actually use "Album Gain" all the time. An intentionally quieter song should always be quieter IMHO.

 

[pjorgenunes]

Definitely. I actually use "Album Gain" all the time. An intentionally quieter song should always be quieter IMHO.

Exactly. My only issue is when I switch from one album to another... There are differences of 8-12dB of difference in perceived loudness between albums

 

[dtc]

EBU R128 is a newer standard than Replay Gain for volume leveling. Hopefully, that is being implemented.

 

[simbun]

EBU R128 is a newer standard than Replay Gain for volume leveling. Hopefully, that is being implemented.

I had assumed this request was to apply the tagged gain rather than calculate it, but I might be wrong.

 

[pjorgenunes]

I had assumed this request was to apply the tagged gain rather than calculate it, but I might be wrong.

For my is to apply what is tagged in files and not calculate it. My files are all tagged with this info calculated with foobar2000.

Calculate it will be a superfluous waste of processing power and energy (every time one album is played it has to calculate in the fly)...

 

[QuarryHunslet]

Hi gfy,

Thank you for your suggestion! This feature is already on our roadmap, and we’re planning to release it in late October. Stay tuned for updates!

Hopefully this “feature” will not be forced on all users, and that it would be an option to enable it if anyone should want to use it.

 

[pjorgenunes]

Hopefully this “feature” will not be forced on all users, and that it would be an option to enable it if anyone should want to use it.

I think that is a must. Options should be:
Off
On (track gain)
On (album gain)

 

[dtc]

I had assumed this request was to apply the tagged gain rather than calculate it, but I might be wrong.

I totally agree that Wiim does not need to calculate them.

Replay Gain and R128 gain are two different values based on two different calculations of loudness. R128 is the newer standard. The values are sometimes stored under the same tag name or sometimes in separate tags. I am just suggesting that R128 should be used or that there is an option to use either the old ReplayGain or the R128 gain. It gets a little messy to support both, but simply using the old ReplayGain standard would leave out the newer method.

 

[dtc]

I think that is a must. Options should be:
Off
On (track gain)
On (album gain)

Agreed. And track and album gain are a real distention. Track gain should be used in playlists and album gain should be used, well, for albums. Album gain maintains the original relative loudness when playing the full album. Track gain applied to an album destroys the intended loudness of each track. It gets tricky for the software to distinguish between these two, especially when streaming, where the software probably does not know if it is playing a full album or not.

 

[rccarguy]

This isn't supported? I thought it was? LMS has for years

 

[rccarguy]

I think that is a must. Options should be:
Off
On (track gain)
On (album gain)

Smart gain is useful also, if you're doing random mix

 

[d6jg]

Smart gain is useful also, if you're doing random mix

You’d better explain to non LMS people just what that means, but of course I agree.

 

[rccarguy]

You’d better explain to non LMS people just what that means, but of course I agree.

""Smart" gain selection uses album gain if successive songs are from the same album or track gain for a mixed playlist."

 

[badunn]

Hi gfy,

Thank you for your suggestion! This feature is already on our roadmap, and we’re planning to release it in late October. Stay tuned for updates!

Is it on the Wiim mini roadmap too?