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slerch666:
I moved computers. I am sure I did something, somewhere, clicked some esoteric box or something but here's the issue I have:

The volume of playback in MC 31 depends on which song I play first from a stop state.

I have a Zone configured to play a large set of my music (7211 tracks at the moment)

Sample Rate is set to up sample to 3x each sample rate (44.1=176, 48=192, etc) because my DAC seems to prefer this to 2x though I could be convinced not to upsample. No encoding.
Volume Leveling is set to On (think this might be the issue?)
Adaptive Volume is On (Peak Level Normalize)
Equalizer set to my preferred curve on my DAC

Playback is set to WASAPI exclusive mode.
Memory Playback, decoded file into memory
Bitstreaming: None
Use SoX for Resampling
Resample uncommon sample rates


 
The songs are obviously split across all kinds of albums, all walks of music, and close to at least 1 track from every artist in my library (ripped from CD, or from an online music store in FLAC or WAV, and all songs are analyzed in MC).

When I am done working for the day, I stop my music, power off my machine, and go about my evening.
Next morning, I get to work, power up my personal machine I use to play music, and depending on the starting track, it seems to determine the overall volume for the day.
Or rather, overall volume until I stop the music and then restart for whatever reason (conf call, lunch, etc).

I checked my old PC and it seems to do the same thing, so I guess I checked the box for something I shouldn't have and copied the settings over?

Any recommendations on a path to start troubleshooting is appreciated, even if it is something really stupid I did.

Thanks in advance!

BryanC:
There's some good information here about volume leveling behavior and how it's calculated on a per-album and per-playlist basis, and some problems with really large playlists.

slerch666:

--- Quote from: BryanC on July 17, 2023, 09:12:37 am ---There's some good information here about volume leveling behavior and how it's calculated on a per-album and per-playlist basis, and some problems with really large playlists.

--- End quote ---
Perfect.

So it seems the "issue" isn't really an issue but probably a byproduct of having a playlist with way too many songs in it.

Now I just need to figure out what I want to do about it.

Thanks for the link!

blgentry:
The issue described in that linked thread happened when you put 10,000 or more songs in Playing Now.  At the end of the thread they said they increased this number to 50,000.  Surely you aren't putting that many songs into Playing Now?

Brian.

Striker:

--- Quote from: BryanC on July 17, 2023, 09:12:37 am ---There's some good information here about volume leveling behavior and how it's calculated on a per-album and per-playlist basis, and some problems with really large playlists.

--- End quote ---

I would think the larger the playlist, the more data points there would be to even out the playlist volume.

The first track should have no more impact on the playlist volume than any other track.

Even with volume leveling turned on... I'm constantly adjusting volume as some tracks are just way too loud.

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