Hi,
I have recently discovered the wonders of replay gain but MJ it seems has a few problems with regards to the analysis and stability thereof. I last did an analysis with 379 and after an undetermined while stopped analysing and just started taking up memory which resulted in windows expanding the virtual memory and all sorts. Processor utilisation was almost nill after the analysis stopped and during the memory swelling... I wish I had taken screen shots of System Monitor to show the pretty pictures! :-/
Anyhow: I'd really like to analyse my whole music collection (2500 tracks or so), but don't want to fall victim to the instability of MJ's analyser only 20 tracks through 2500 (especially if I'm to leave it unattended).
So I have been doing a little research on the Replay Gain Website (replaygain.org) and have downloaded MP3Gain -- Matt makes reference to it in a recent posting -- and have analysed a few files with it.
However, it is clear that there isn't much of a standard out there because MJ won't see the files as having been analysed and when it comes to playback, defaults to the average gain rate in the playlist. Not very useful.
When will this all work nicely? If MJ could alt least get some stability into the analysis procedure, then it would nullify my quest to search elsewhere. Are there any widely used standards out there?
Oh, and can replay gain be added to the Tools menu -- it is quite odd having to find it under the tagging property window