Hi, I'm a FLAC beginner and I had a question about the meaning of track and album gain. I think it's a stupid question, but hey, I must learn it somewhere ;) So I wanted to know what track and album gain means. I use winamp for playing my encoded FLAC files and when I look at the properties of a FLAC file I can see this: track gain: not present album gain: not present So I was wondering what those 2 things mean (track gain and album gain), how they can be enabled and what effect they have on the music when I encode it using track and album gain. I'm a beginner so please explain in not too technical terms. thanks in advance! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20070401/4be11b7a/attachment.html
Those are Replay Gain elements. Please check on Wikipedia or Hydrogenaudio for more information on RG. In short, they are values to normalize in a lossless way the audio volume. -Ivo
2007/4/1, Ivo Emanuel Gon?alves <justivo@gmail.com>:> > Those are Replay Gain elements. Please check on Wikipedia or > Hydrogenaudio for more information on RG. In short, they are values > to normalize in a lossless way the audio volume.Hi, But how can this be possibly lossless? You change the volume of the audio tracks, so isn't this lossy or does the actual volume of a track isn't considered as "audio quality"? thanks in advance PS: I'm a beginner, so it could be a stupid question! -Ivo> _______________________________________________ > Flac mailing list > Flac@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20070402/a1de0610/attachment.html