I am very interested in performating album by album normalization. If I perform audio analysis on every file, and then play back the music, all the tracks are more or less normalized to the same volume level. That's all well and good for pop music, or listening to randomized tracks, however, if you are listening to classical music, and randomizing by album, it causes a bit of weirdness, causing quieter tracks to have their volumes' raised w/ respect to the other track's in the album.
As I see it, the audio analysis is alread performed for you by MC. All I need to do is take the gain value for the track that is normalized the least and apply it to all the other fields.
I don't know the best way to manage this, however, it would seem that a plug-in could easily be written to read in tracks, find the min replay gain and set all other tracks in the album accordingly.
Does anyone have any suggestions on where to start?
I assume that downloading the SDKs is a good place to start, but figured I'd see whether anyone had any pointers.
Thanks,
kiwi