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whoareyou:
I have a ripped album consisting of 5.1 flac and and 10 channel wav (decoded Atmos).  All tracks on album are analyzed and there were no errors completing this task.

When the 10 channel wav files are played as part of the entire album, when it gets to the wav files volume leveling reduces level for these files by almost 11db.  As a result, the wav tracks are much too low in volume (much lower in volume than the 5.1 flac tracks).   Adaptive volume doesn't help here.  Everything is made louder, but the 10 track wav are still much lower volume than the 5.1 flac files.

If I start playback of the same 10 track wavs in their own playlist, without the other tracks in the album, the volume level is reduced by only 3db, and this seems to be at the appropriate level that would match the flac files volume. 

In each case, the "playlist" only consists of files from the same album.

So, why the difference in how much the same file's volume is reduced when playing back as part of the album?
Any other configuration to look at?
 
Thanks

Striker:
I've noticed this too... some but not all hi-rez files play back much higher volume than 44k files when using VolumeLeveling.

I usually have over 50 hours of music in my PlayingNow from lots of albums, and even with VolumeLeveling on... I still have to constantly adjust the volume between albums.

The volume differences affects all sampling rates.

whoareyou:
My issue is with a very small playlist (one album) so I'm not so sure this is same issue.   

When the 10 channel songs play, their volume is not just a couple of DB lower but rather 10-15db lower ( based on how much I need to increase the internal volume control).

So, you're saying you've encountered situation where volume drops this drastically?

I've always mixed playback for 5.1. 4.0 3.0  multichannel with 2 channel and never had anything like this happen before.

whoareyou:
Anyone have a suggestion for what to look at to troubleshoot this?  Again, I'm not talking about a small difference between volume levels, but rather something that is like a 6 - 10 db difference in the volume levels when switching between 10 channel and the 6 channel tracks.

Matt:
Could you mail me two files that seem to play at really different levels?  I'm matt at jriver.

Thanks.

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