2025-01-09, 11:54 AM
(This post was last modified: 2025-01-09, 12:29 PM by FatMax1492. Edited 1 time in total.)
Hey all, I have a slight problem.
Due to some music files not being downloadable as mp3 I have to resort to downloading flacs and converting them to mp3-320 with freac before applying the replaygain tags with MusicBee.
Unfortunately, Jellyfin doesn't seem to be able to play these files correctly with the replaygain, making some albums way louder than others. Unconverted flacs do work as expected,
The problem also appears when I add the replaygain tags before converting to mp3 and when I let the download source convert the flacs to mp3-320 instead of doing it myself.
I prefer to have all my collection to be mp3 and not flac; this is due to personal issues and is not up for debate
Is there anything that might be worth trying? Thanks in advance.
I've tried this with this one specific artist only
The files I have problems with includes this one:
I Like Your Smile from Fancy's album MASQUERADE (Les Marionettes): Track: dB -10,3 (playing on sound level 8 hurts my ears, level 2 is comfortable)
Biligual from Pet Shop Boys' album Bilingual: Further Listening [...]: Track: dB -9,1 (playing on sound level 8 is comfortable; level 10 is loud but acceptable)
The difference is that the top song was downloaded as flac (I also tried with converted ogg, same problem) with freac to mp3-320. The bottom song was downloaded as mp3-320 directly. Both from different sources.
Coming back to the .ogg stuff:
At first Fancy had .ogg files converted to .mp3, and when I learned that this was bad practise I decided to swap them for mp3s converted from a flac source. These .ogg files played with replaygain before.
I just put Fancy's .ogg files back into the file system, only to discover replaygain is broken there too. Moving them out and back in seems to have created the problem.
I have many other songs in .mp3 converted from the same .ogg source. I just compared one (track: dB -8,3, should be almost as loud as I Like Your Smile) to another song from the same source as the Pet Shop Boys' Bilingual, (track: dB -5,5) and they have the same audio level.
This means the un-moved .ogg keeps its replaygain, and the twice-moved .ogg does not.
Due to some music files not being downloadable as mp3 I have to resort to downloading flacs and converting them to mp3-320 with freac before applying the replaygain tags with MusicBee.
Unfortunately, Jellyfin doesn't seem to be able to play these files correctly with the replaygain, making some albums way louder than others. Unconverted flacs do work as expected,
The problem also appears when I add the replaygain tags before converting to mp3 and when I let the download source convert the flacs to mp3-320 instead of doing it myself.
I prefer to have all my collection to be mp3 and not flac; this is due to personal issues and is not up for debate
Is there anything that might be worth trying? Thanks in advance.
I've tried this with this one specific artist only
The files I have problems with includes this one:
I Like Your Smile from Fancy's album MASQUERADE (Les Marionettes): Track: dB -10,3 (playing on sound level 8 hurts my ears, level 2 is comfortable)
Biligual from Pet Shop Boys' album Bilingual: Further Listening [...]: Track: dB -9,1 (playing on sound level 8 is comfortable; level 10 is loud but acceptable)
The difference is that the top song was downloaded as flac (I also tried with converted ogg, same problem) with freac to mp3-320. The bottom song was downloaded as mp3-320 directly. Both from different sources.
Coming back to the .ogg stuff:
At first Fancy had .ogg files converted to .mp3, and when I learned that this was bad practise I decided to swap them for mp3s converted from a flac source. These .ogg files played with replaygain before.
I just put Fancy's .ogg files back into the file system, only to discover replaygain is broken there too. Moving them out and back in seems to have created the problem.
I have many other songs in .mp3 converted from the same .ogg source. I just compared one (track: dB -8,3, should be almost as loud as I Like Your Smile) to another song from the same source as the Pet Shop Boys' Bilingual, (track: dB -5,5) and they have the same audio level.
This means the un-moved .ogg keeps its replaygain, and the twice-moved .ogg does not.
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