Comments on: The Gains of Replay Gain

By: Ian Monroe

Ian Monroe — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:50:12 +0000

Feel free to narrow the scope of what formats replaygain will support before committing. Once its committed people will have incentive and not much work to get support for their sort of file.

Perhaps more of a challenge is that you need a sort of ‘hidden’ way to change the volume level with Phonon. The Replaygain script is a bit obvious and just changes the user-visible amarok volume, this isn’t how replaygain is supposed to work.

By: Harold

Harold — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:53:23 +0000

The replaygain script in Amarok 1.4 makes the volume control unusable (the script moves it up and down).
For Amarok 2 can you have it leave a usable volume control. Maybe show the replaygain ajustment in outline or transparently on the volume control.
Thank you for working on replaygain for Amarok 2.

By: TheBlackCat

TheBlackCat — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:55:19 +0000

I think full Nepomuk support is not planned until 4.3 at the earliest. I was under the impression the current Nepomuk search system is still very experimental.

By: Fri13

Fri13 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:34:27 +0000

I like to read about Nepomuk but I just cant find how to use it.
Many times I have readed how you can find files by tags and rating, but not mention HOW.

Only kio-slave what I have now found is “nepomuksearch:/hasTag:foobar”
But it does not show anything on folderview or on Dolphin, it just freeze the filemanagement while nepomuk query is done (about 90 seconds).

Tags and files can be founded trought krunner but I wanna get use the tag filterin to folderview…

Because I use KDE 4.1.96 (RC1) it seems it does not work yet. This is bad miss why nepomuk might fall if it is not possible to use easily like metadata on digiKam.

Today I was using kdenlive 0.7.1 and I noticed that there was nepomuk integration possible to enable in settings. All what it did was giving error… I was so disapointed.
Then I tried to get audio and video work on it and got so terrible video preview (with uncompressed screenrecord too!) so i turned it off.

Now I am searching good audio/video conversation application… mayby doing few mockups for such and hope someone would implent if there is not such easy-to-use one.

By: gavlee

gavlee — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:42:00 +0000

I have some code in ~/.asoundrc to use ladspa plugins with a compressor/limiter to keep the volume the same. If there is need for this I could post it somewhere, I don’t want to flood your comments.

By: .

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:25:11 +0000

@Matija “hook” Šuklje
normalize adds tags to mp3 files, and reencodes vorbis files (which decreases quality.

By: randomguy3

randomguy3 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:51:24 +0000

@Trigger: if you use mp3gain with the -r or -a option, it should be written in a form that any MP3 decoder will interpret (not in the metadata but in the file itself). I’ve tested this on my Creative ZEN Stone Plus (which isn’t fancy enough to display the track artist, never mind read replay gain metadata).

By: Trigger

Trigger — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:34:39 +0000

Currently I think the IPod cannot use the information written by mp3gain, but uses something similar.
I will love you if you find a way to convert the mp3gain tag to something the stupid IPod can use while copying files with Amarok to the IPod.

And even if this won’t/can’t be implemented, I love Amarok anyway

By: randomguy3

randomguy3 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:08:45 +0000

@Bakterie: I’m aiming for 2.1. I don’t have any plans to put running mp3gain etc. on files into Amarok. I don’t think that belongs in Amarok core, anyway – it should be an addon script.

@Bruno: that would be quite neat. It should probably be part of a transcoding script (I’m not aware of any transcoding capability in Amarok 2 yet).

By: Bruno

Bruno — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:51:50 +0000

Would it be possible to normalize songs when syncing with a portable mp3 player (who don’t support replay gain)?