Many of us have been asking for a better Replay Gain that handles whole albums (Album), instead of individual tracks (Radio). For most albums Radio Replay Gain is just fine, but for Pink Floyd, live albums, Roger Waters and Alan Parsons, it just doesn't work well. Tracks that run into each other, with no silence between the tracks, where the Radio Replay Gain calculates different values, causes abrupt volume changes in music that should smoothly flow from track to track.
I was listening to Alan Parsons / Tales of Mystery and Imagination this morning, it was unlistenable with Replay Gain turned on. I can't remember to turn Replay Gain on and off based on the album type.
So how about just changing MC to allow us to manually change the adjustment Replay Gain value for tracks? This simply means changing the adjustment value in the Replay Gain field, changing it from read only to user adjustable.
Then I could set the Replay Gain value for the Alan Parsons album, all tracks to the same value, and presto, problem solved.
While waiting for Album Replay Gain, this is a good compromise, that I assume is easy to implement, and solves everything for me.
What are your thoughts?
While waiting, does anyone know of a program that will allow me to modify the MC read only tags in APE and MP3 files, so I can do this Replay Gain adjustment now?