Often when you don't get an answer, it means that nobody knows.
Reporting the version you're using might help. You can copy and paste System Info from MC's Help menu.
Did you try Apple support? Is your iPod firmware up to date?
Hi JimH thanks for answering. I am using 12.0.67, see system info below. I have an apple Ipod Photo 4th gen with latest firmware. I tried the same albums (I noticed this strange behaviour on two albums until now) with foobar and foo_dop plugin (replaygain enabled) and everything is fine then. Removing the albums from the ipod, and use media centre to transfer again brings back the problem. Playing back the album in j river media center does not bring about any sound differences, but once transferred to the Ipod one song of the album sounds louder. Any ideas?
Media Center Registered 12.0.267 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 12\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2403 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1047 MB, Free - 345 MB
Internet Explorer: 7.0.5730.11 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82.2900 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.0.2900 / Shell32.dll: 6.0.2900 / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive F: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive G: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive H: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive F: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8523B Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:52 MaxSpeed:52 BurnProof:Yes
Drive G: HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H20L Addr: 1:1:0 Speed:48 MaxSpeed:48 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: No / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No /
Portable Device Info
Removed devices:
Device info dump for 'Apple iPod Photo (K:)':
WMDMName: IPOD VAN RO (K:)
DeviceUID: $$?$storage#removablemedia#7&fb5a517&0&rm#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}$0
CanonicalName: \\?\storage#removablemedia#7&fb5a517&0&rm#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}$0
VendorName: ; VendorID: 1452
ProductID: 4612; FirmwareVersion: 1.62
WMDMSerialNumber: NULL
DeviceType: 3; DeviceID: JQ516E7RSAY; DeviceName: Apple iPod; UnsupportedDevice: 0
IsDrive: 1; DriveLetter: K:; DrivePath: ; MainDriveLetter: K:
IsJanusCapable: ; IsIpod: 1
SupportsAlbumArt: 1; AlbumArtEnabled: 1
SupportsFolders: -1; PlaylistFormat: 0; EjectMode: 0; AlwaysPumpCOMMessages: 0
SupportedFileTypes: mp3;wav;mp4;aa;m4a;m4b;m4p;aiff;aif;bmp;jpg;jpeg;gif;tif;tiff;png;sgi;psd
ContextMenus: Delete
MemoryTypes: Internal Memory
InstallURL:
ApplicationName: Media Center
ImageName: Apple iPod Photo
RootBasePath:
AudioBasePath: Music\[Artist]\[Album]\
ImageBasePath: Images\
VideoBasePath: Video\
DataBasePath: Data\
PlaylistBasePath: ROOT\
DatabaseBasePath:
AudibleBasePath: Audible\
MatchKeyExpression: If(IsEqual([Media Type], Image), [Name][File Size, 0], [Name]Clean([Artist], 1)[Album][Genre]FormatNumber([Track #, 0])[Media Type])
ChangeKeyExpression: If(IsEqual([Media Type], Image),,[Rating][Composer][Date Modified])
Interface Plugins:
Library Server (Active/Enabled)
TiVo Server (Active)
UPnP Server (Active)
last.fm (Active)
What I'm Listening To (Active)