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Questions / Re: Analyze Volume / Replay Gain issues...

« on: April 07, 2018, 08:26:48 AM »

I can't say that it does... although it might! LOL!

When I inadvertently had "Smart Gain" selected in Controls all I noticed was that Replay Gain, "wasn't working."

However, when I shuffle the affected Playlist I manually go through it and make sure that no two tracks from the same album play back-to-back, which, according to Steve's explanation above, means that "Track Gain" should have been used... doesn't it?!

Now that I have "Track Gain Only" selected in Controls, every track - 60 tracks from 44 albums - plays back at basically the same perceived volume.

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Questions / Re: Analyze Volume / Replay Gain issues...

« on: April 04, 2018, 10:01:23 PM »

Hi Redwing

Thanks for the "Bug" update; that really confused the Hell out of me! LOL!

After re-applying Track Gain to my files and going to "Controls" to toggle Replay Gain on and off as you suggested, I discovered I actually had "Smart Gain" selected... I'm assuming "Smart Gain" would override the "Track Gain" set for individual tracks?

Anyway, I selected "Track Gain Only" and the tracks that were obviously "louder" before are now playing back at pretty much the same volume as the rest of my Playlist.

Thanks again for your help!
Paul

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Questions / Re: Analyze Volume / Replay Gain issues...

« on: April 04, 2018, 07:49:38 PM »

Hello Redwing

Thank you for your reply, it's much appreciated; all my tracks are adjusted to Track Gain, as I listen to my music in shuffled Playlists, however, something is happening that I don't understand...

I opened one of my Playlists where I've noticed the differences in track volumes and clicked on Tools/Restore Original Volume.

I then went back to Tools/Analyze Volume and applied Track Gain to every track, including checking for Clipping.

I randomly checked some of the tracks, there are 57 in the Playlist, by Right Clicking then going to Edit/Tag Inspector and can see the Replaygain Track Gain and Replaygain Track Peak values assigned.

Then here's where it gets weird... I went to Tools/Tagging Tools/Other 'Files to Edit' Filters/Show Files With No Volume Analysis, and out of the 57 tracks in the Playlist, 22 are shown as having, "No Replaygain Tags."

Right Clicking/Edit/Tag Inspector on each individual track in the list shows me the Replaygain Track Gain and Replaygain Track Peak values.

Do you have any idea what's going on?

Thanks
Paul

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Questions / Analyze Volume / Replay Gain issues...

« on: April 04, 2018, 07:30:58 AM »

Hello All

I live in my various musical genre Playlists and play them Shuffled, so analyze the volume and adjust by Track.

But there are still some noticeable differences in the perceived volume of some of the tracks within the same Playlist when I'm listening.

I've seen Xmedia Recode, and Audio Normalizer by Solar Wind, recommended as highly accurate tools for volume normalizing.

Does anyone have any experience with these products, or can they recommend any others?

I'm on the latest version of MusicBee, 3.1.6590.

Thanks
Paul

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MusicBee Wishlist / Multiple Playlist Memory...

« on: March 31, 2018, 01:28:41 AM »

Hi All

I live in my Playlists, playing them Shuffled, and LOVE the fact that MusicBee remembers the previous position of a List and picks-up right where it stopped!

But, if I move to another Playlist and listen to some tracks, then go back to the original List, I have to re-Shuffle / configure the List from scratch.

I wish there was a way for MusicBee to "remember" multiple Playlists!   

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MusicBee Wishlist / Multi-disc Track Listing in Expanded Panel...

« on: September 18, 2017, 05:53:09 AM »

I'm new to MusicBee and loving it so far! I basically live in my Playlists and have them set to "Album Art” view, but have noticed a quirk in the way tracks are listed on multi-disc albums when you open the Expanded Panel.

Let’s assume I have a 2 disc album that's made up 2 long tracks, one on each disc.

When I apply the Disc-Track# rule to the information shown in the Expanded Panel it displays it like this...

1   Really Long Album Disc 1
     1.01

1   Really Long Album Disc 2
     2.01

To me it would make more sense, and it would be so much "cleaner," to display the information as...

1.01   Really Long Album Disc 1

2.01   Really Long Album Disc 2

I don’t know if this is an issue for anyone else, but MusicBee has such a clean, configurable, minimalist interface (it's one of the reasons I started using it after looking at foobar, JRiver etc.) I’d love to see this particular issue addressed.

Thanks for a fantastic product!
Paul

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Questions / Re: Multi-Disc Track Listings in "Album View..."

« on: September 17, 2017, 01:40:29 AM »

Hi fankz

Thanks for the help, you've got me pretty close to what I want, but it's not quite there.

I have a 2 disc album (Dynamic Stillness) that's made up 2 long tracks, one on each disc.

I have the main panel set to the Album Art view, when I apply the Disc-Track# rule to the information shown in the Expanded Panel it displays the information like this...

1   Dynamic Stillness Part 1
    1.01

1   Dynamic Stillness Part 2
    2.01

To me it would make more sense, and it would be "cleaner," to display the information as...

1.01  Dynamic Stillness Part 1

2.01  Dynamic Stillness Part 2

I'm guessing it's not possible; it's a real shame because MusicBee has such a clean, configurable, minimalist interface, it's one of the reasons I started using it after looking at foobar, JRiver etc.

Thanks!
Paul

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Questions / Multi-Disc Track Listings in "Album View..."

« on: September 16, 2017, 08:32:32 PM »

Hello All

I'm new to MusicBee and loving it so far! I basically live in my Playlists and have them set to "Album View," but have noticed a quirk in the way tracks are listed on multi-disc albums when you "open" the album.

On a 2 disc album tracks are displayed in the same format across both discs e.g. "1 Track One" etc on Disc 1, and "1 Track One" etc on Disc 2.

What would make more sense to me would be for tracks on disc one to be displayed as "1.1 Track One" etc, with the tracks on disc two displayed as "2.1 Track One" etc.

The information to do this seems to be available as there are fields for "Track X of X" and "Disc X of X" when we're tagging our music collections.

Is this possible and I've just missed a setting somewhere? As I said, I'm pretty new to MusicBee and am concentrating on importing/converting my collection to Flac.

Thanks
Paul

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Questions / Re: Unable to Convert formats...

« on: August 25, 2017, 05:39:57 AM »

Okay, I seemed to have stumbled on a fix... I went to Preferences/File Converters, unchecked MP3, AAC, and just for laughs, Flac, applied the changes, then went back in and re-checked Flac, applied the changes, and voila, I now have a full list of file formats available when I need to convert a file.

Obviously I have absolutely no idea why that would work, I'm just glad it did!

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Questions / Re: Unable to Convert formats...

« on: August 25, 2017, 03:54:51 AM »

Sorry, maybe I didn't make myself clear, I want to rip the imported Wave file to Flac, but the ONLY options in the drop-down menu are mp3 and Wave.

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Questions / Unable to Convert formats...

« on: August 25, 2017, 03:39:38 AM »

Hello All

I've only just downloaded MusicBee and am unable to convert any files.

I imported a Wave file, clicked on it, went to Tools/Convert Format, and the only options I have in the Drop-down Menu are mp3 - which it can't do - and Wave!

I thought MusicBee contained a whole host of file converters... am I missing something?

Thanks
Paul