ReplayGain support

Midnight

Hi,

ReplayGain support should be added. I've already found the volume normalization setting in the menu, which uses the volume_normalization config file parameter, but that's not the same. See this from the man page:

replaygain <off or album or track or auto>
If specified, mpd will adjust the volume of songs played using ReplayGain tags (see <http://www.replaygain.org/>). Setting this to "album" will adjust volume using the album's ReplayGain tags, while setting it to
"track" will adjust it using the track ReplayGain tags. "auto" uses the track ReplayGain tags if random play is activated otherwise the album ReplayGain tags. Currently only FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Musepack, and MP3
(through ID3v2 ReplayGain tags, not APEv2) are supported.

replaygain_preamp <-15 to 15>
This is the gain (in dB) applied to songs with ReplayGain tags.

volume_normalization <yes or no>
If yes, mpd will normalize the volume of songs as they play. The default is no.

I've never used volume_normalization, but this probably just is a build in run time volume normalizer with all it's drawbacks (adjusting volume during playback).
ReplayGain values are calculated beforehand by third party tools and stored in the music file tags. At playback mpd just has to adjust the volume according the tag values.

To do this correct a user should either chose replaygain or volume_normalization. If replaygain is used it also should be possible to set the replaygain_preamp value. Maybe all this should have it's own headline: "Volume normalization options".

ACX

Hi Midnight, you are right. We left those settings off from the RuneUI, but we are going to reintroduce them soon.
ReplayGain is already supported out of the box in MPD, so In the meanwhile you can manually edit /etc/mpd.conf adding those lines to the config.

EvilOverlord

I see your Feb 2014 post suggesting addition of ReplayGain support "soon", but haven't found it in the settings. Let me add my hope that this is coming in .4

Slaughthammer

I would also appreciate addition of replaygain functionality to the UI, and furthermore separate gain values for files with and without replaygain tags would be very nice!

Quaeritate

I edited the php to add in replaygain support. Is this the kind of thing you would like people to submit as patch to github?

Quaeritate

Slaughthammer wroteI would also appreciate addition of replaygain functionality to the UI, and furthermore separate gain values for files with and without replaygain tags would be very nice!

I don't think having separate gain values for files with and without replaygain tags is supported by MPD which this project is based on. You would need to ask that project to add the feature so that runeaudio could then make use of it.