[Flac] Replay-gain

[Ben Allison]

Don't apply replay gain during conversion; there should be a checkbox in
foobar to enable or disable this option.  Replay Gain should only be
applied during playback.    See: 
http://shup.com/Shup/40316/1084792520-Shup-Image-Editor-108479250-Converter-Setup.png.png

If you convert to MP3, you can calculate replay gain on them after the fact.

Just because Replay Gain information is stored in the FLAC file doesn't
mean the decoder has to use it :)

-benski

> Hello everyone, I'm new to this flac thing (started about a week ago) but
> I have read a lot about flac and replaygain.  As far as I understand it,
> replaygain is lossless in the sense that I can tell my player to ignore
> the settings or I can even use foobar2000 to remove the tags entirely,
> hence getting back to the original audio.
>
> If that is the case, why is there a warning in the foobar2000 converter
> dialogue box stating that "applying ReplayGain adjustment during
> conversion will irreversibly alter data in encoded file, unlike ReplayGain
> scan after encode"?
>
> I used EAC and AutoFLAC to rip my CD collection.  In the EAC command line
> options for flac.exe, I added the --replay-gain parameter and in the
> AutoFLAC setup, I enabled the "Add Replaygain" checkbox.  I just
> downloaded foobar2000 and I can see that the replaygain values are there
> but after seeing that warning when converting my flac files to mp3, I
> became concerned.  I used AutoFLAC so that I can easily take my flac files
> and recreate the CD's if I ever needed to (can't get my folks to buy
> mp3/flac players yet and their CD's tend to get abused).  I want an exact
> copy of the original CD (as close as possible anyway).  Seeing that
> warning above makes me think that since I applied replaygain to my flac
> files when creating them, that I no longer have an original rip.
>
> If I convert the flac files (with replay gain values) back to wav files
> (autoflac does this for me), will these converted wav files be the same as
> the wav files created during my original rip of the CD?
>
> Do I need to rip my CD collection again without the replaygain so that I
> can use these to create a copy of the original CD if needed?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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