[Flac] flac --replay-gain

[Dat Head]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Jeff C <northofbolton at rogers.com> wrote:
> I use foobar2000 to apply or remove the replay gain.  May or may not be the
> best solution but it seems to work fine for me.
>
can somebody explain replaygain a bit - is it kinda like normalization
but w/o modifying
the files (just giving software a number to use to obtain the level
boost needed?)

and how does track vs album gain work (doesn't seem like you could use
both at same
time if i'm at all understanding)

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Decline" <rutlecorps at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 9:13 AM
> Subject: [Flac] flac --replay-gain
>

>> I have FLAC files that I would like to re-encode with --replay-gain.  I
>> have my Flac's organized in Artist/Album folders, so I should have no
>> problem getting an album gain/peak per album.
>>
>> Do I need to first de-code the flac's to wav files and then
>> "flac --replay-gain *.wav", or can this be accomplished by going to each
>> Album directory and "flac -f --replay-gain *.flac"?