2008-01-13, 22:36
Access is via the OSD when playing a video file fullscreen.
djdafreund Wrote:Would it be considered to rename that function to be more fitting. I think by naming it "Volume Amplification" considering what it's function actually is would be misleading. All this time i have never used it because of the name, and always wondered what happened to the "Dynamic Range Compression" function as i found it usefull.
Maybe "Sound Compression Level" is more fitting based on what you mentioned it actually does, or something similar. To a lot of users, "Volume Amplication" would be something that boosts the volume output, or gain, which is the same reason i haven't used it, because of not needing gain ouput with the theater setup, but DO like using range compression sometimes when at night and other's are sleeping, watching an action movie or something that has some range to it.
I know you might be set on that name, and that's why i am simply asking for at least the though of changing it to at least a better suited name considering what's it's actually doing, now that we know.
(2017-06-12, 14:39)ignade82 Wrote: Sorry guys I am a bit confused . I have my library 70gb. I want to normalize to have songs 89db.If I dont want to lose quality I have to use foobar2000 or mp3gain?
I thought mp3gain will redecode the mp3s which is bad.Instead, foobar just adds some parameter on tags.
I play my music on Kodi (AMFT) and plex on the phone.
(2017-06-13, 16:15)dWooluf Wrote:(2017-06-12, 14:39)ignade82 Wrote: Sorry guys I am a bit confused . I have my library 70gb. I want to normalize to have songs 89db.If I dont want to lose quality I have to use foobar2000 or mp3gain?
I thought mp3gain will redecode the mp3s which is bad.Instead, foobar just adds some parameter on tags.
I play my music on Kodi (AMFT) and plex on the phone.
Replaygain is what you're talking about with foobar2000. You can use foobar2000 (and lots of other applications I'd guess) to scan your library and add that parameter. Note that if you're going to do it properly, your really need a well-organised library. This is because foobar will add two values for replaygain for each file: one for the individual song and one for the album of which the song is a part. It makes sense to use the album value if you're playing a whole album. That way differences in volume between individual tracks are preserved, but the average volume for the album as a whole will be approximately the same as any other album you've got. This is a very simplistic explanation and that's my level of knowledge. Discussions on Replaygain get very technical very quickly. At your option, Kodi will use the replaygain information in the header to do roughly what you want when it plays the file.