09-17-2021, 12:05 PM
(09-17-2021, 10:26 AM)Tim Curtis Wrote: There haven't been any recent trouble reports in our Forum regarding MPD volume normalization nor any issues that I could find in the MPD repo https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/issues
Maybe its a problem with the files or some issue with the device?
It's not the files. I suppose it could be the device. But isn't it more likely to be just what I already suggested about how the normalizing works? Without scanning the whole track looking for peaks so that it can determine that it needs to multiply the amplitude by, say, 1.2 it instead says "well, this is pretty quiet so I'll scale it by 10" then as the audio in the track gets louder it reduces that scaling down bit by bit until it arrives at the the peak and ends up with 1.2. And it keeps this value for subsequent tracks which is why you don't get this artefact at the start of every track on an album. (You would get it at the start of, say track 2, if that was the first track you played - part of the proof that it's not the files).
