I keep getting my ears blown out because of sonarr downloading quiet rips. How can I fix this? Plex doesn’t seem to have any settings to do it.

  • ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc
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    1 year ago

    Look up ReplayGain. It analyzes and then adds metadata about the peak gains of each file, to the file, without the need to re-encode anything. Foobar2k natively supports it. Hopefully Plex also has support for ReplayGain.

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      1 year ago

      VLC also supports ReplayGain information, and you can set default ReplayGain value on Android, and likely on the desktop one as well.

      However to create ReplayGain you need Musicbrainz Picard or the ReplayGain Scanner function of FB2K.

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      1 year ago

      This is the first thing I thought of. ReplayGain has been how this has been done for decades. It doesn’t need to reencode the file, which will reduce quality, and there are programs that will scan folders to calculate the gain for each file. Other options suggested that reencode seem unnecessary and inferior.