Flac - Nov 2005 - What's ReplayGain effect on a decompressed file (Flac to Wav)

I backed up my entire CD collection to Flac (350+) to
avoid losing them to scratches, laser burns, etc. Now
I'm wondering how RG affects the Wav file produced
from Flac decompresion if I used the following command
with CDex:

-8 -V -T artist="%a" -T album="%b" -T title="%t"
-T
date="%y" -T tracknumber="%tn" -T genre="%g"
--replay-gain -o "%2" "%1"

If I want to burn a new CD from Flac fiels and
decompress the Flac file with Flac Frontend, Cool Edit
(Adobe Audition) or simply drag it into Nero (got
Cole2K plugins installed), is it really an "exact"
copy of the original file or is it permanently
modified by ReplayGain, thus procucing an altered
audio file? 




	
		
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At 06:46 PM 11/11/2005, Eliezer Martinez wrote:
>I backed up my entire CD collection to Flac (350+) to
>avoid losing them to scratches, laser burns, etc. Now
>I'm wondering how RG affects the Wav file produced
>from Flac decompresion if I used the following command
>with CDex:
>
>-8 -V -T artist="%a" -T album="%b" -T
title="%t" -T
>date="%y" -T tracknumber="%tn" -T genre="%g"
>--replay-gain -o "%2" "%1"
>
>If I want to burn a new CD from Flac fiels and
>decompress the Flac file with Flac Frontend, Cool Edit
>(Adobe Audition) or simply drag it into Nero (got
>Cole2K plugins installed), is it really an "exact"
>copy of the original file or is it permanently
>modified by ReplayGain, thus procucing an altered
>audio file?
The solution is to wipe the tags and thus the RG. RG tends to lower 
the volume and if the plugin respects that you might end up with 
something different then the original waveform.


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