One Q: Does 'Clip Protection' handle inter sample clipping?
The R128 analysis in MC19/20 will.
ReplayGain in older versions will not.
Not sure I understand why JRiver is not using and writing to the "Standard" Replaygain Track and Album gain tags anymore. I understand the need for the new Peak level ones but why not keep using the existing and well known replaygain tags? The Volume (R128) one is always 5dB higher than the Volume (replaygain) anyway...
The new R128 algorithm is just smarter but the idea is the same so why the change?
If it would be possible to have the Volume Level (ReplayGain) copied to the standard replaygain_track_gain tag in order to comply with other softwares that would be great.
R128 analysis is a lot better than ReplayGain v1.
Media Center only uses the R128 tags for volume leveling.
It also writes ReplayGain tags based on the R128 analysis, by adding 5dB - because the leveling target for R128 is -23dBFS, while ReplayGain is -18dBFS. (in fact, I seem to recall MC's old ReplayGain target being non-standard, so the official spec may be different)
This is for compatibility with other devices that may use the ReplayGain tags, not for MC's own use.
The results will differ from an actual ReplayGain v1 analysis tool, since they're just offset R128 values.
An example of where this is useful would be if you're syncing tracks to a portable device. That way you get the benefits of Media Center's improved R128 analysis when enabling "ReplayGain".
And keeping the R128 tags separate from ReplayGain tags means that if you have another program re-analyze the files, the R128 information is not overwritten.
The standard replaygain tracks are written in MC20.
If I recall correctly, MC writes track data but not album data.
This is because MC calculates what an "album" is on-the-fly with the R128 system - which is a big improvement over the old fixed-level album gain.
However it would be useful if MC still calculated and wrote the old style of album gain into the file tags so that you can enable album-based leveling when you copy those tracks to a portable device.
If I recall correctly, that and the ability to somehow tag albums in a way which will force track-based leveling inside MC are the only two things remaining for the R128 system to be "complete".
I would also like it if MC wrote
iTunNORM values into the files on analysis, based on the R128 information so that I can enable SoundCheck on my phone and get the same high-quality leveling, but there does not seem to be any interest in that.
Hi, I have signed up to Tidal and am very pleased with the quality.
I seem to have to set the volume via the parametric eq. volume in DSP to a gain of -43 to stop clipping. The sound is good and I am happy with it all but is this the norm ?
P.S. If I remove all DSP etc. I still need a gain of -35 to -40 depending on what music I am streaming.
That does not sound right at all. Are you applying other DSP?
What are you using to determine whether something is clipping?