The analyzer will write data to file tags by default, so it should work everywhere.
Things like Volume Leveling are applied on playback rather than modifying the audio, so Volume Leveling must be enabled on the client too.
Yes. No need to do anything on the clients or if you are coping files for portable use either.
If you are adding large amounts of media you might want to consider ripping to a PC doing your analysis there then transferring them to the NAS.
Just to make sure, there is no semantic confusion -- the shared
library is on a PC which is running as
media server, the
media is on a NAS. The clients are loading the library from the PC running as media server. This will work no problem (provided that the server PC is running of course. If one of your clients is actually a connected as a DLNA device and not a PC setup as a client, you can still have volume leveling, but not adaptive volume leveling.
Even a medium-sized collection of audio (about 3TBs of flac files; euh, guess this would be small compared to some of the crazies here
); took me a couple of days on an i5 four core with lots of ram -- its worth it though. Analyzing video THAT on the other hand is painful