Re: Normalising FLAC files

luuk;169936 Wrote: 
> Now I am confused. I thought the normalisation done to flac files by the
> FLAC encoder or Foobar is nothing more than a calculated replaygain
> stored in the metadata that can subsequently be used by other programs
> to "normalise" on the fly. This should still allow us to recreate the
> original bit by bit by ignoring (or removing) the replaygain. I have
> always assumed that if I convert a FLAC file back to a wav file the
> replaygain is ignored. What did I miss?
Nothing, that's exactly how it works.
When you turn on replay gain in the squeezebox it alters the data at
the time of playback rather than at the time of the encoding.
The result is the same, the data in the file however remains
untouched.

-s.


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