A lot of players, to make the experience consistent, add artificially loudness to opus files so their perceived loudness matches other file types. I think it’s best explained here:
Auxio on Android just added it: Releases · OxygenCobalt/Auxio · GitHub
Foobar has always done it and it’s discussed here: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,119791.0.html , among other threads
Could you change Symfonium to make loudness even? Or at least add a toggle for it? Switching from an opus file to a mp3 file is really painful ATM.
If you agree to add this feature, let me know if you want sample files.
Problem solved:
Problem is that all songs don’t have the same loudness if they are in different formats, which completely defeats the purpose of Replay Gain.
Brought benefits:
The perceived loudness will be the same for every file
As far as I can tell, this problem still exists. Opus files are still more quiet than other files when using ReplayGain. It would be amazing to get this fixed - it is quite annoying to hear the loudness go up and down across songs simply because some are opus files and others are not.
Unfortunately, I can’t help on this matter as I’m not facing the issue anymore, but it may be because I’m transcoding my files with EasyAudioSync, and I’m using this feature: https://i.imgur.com/5oK80j4.png
Because of this feature, I don’t think I need the feature originally requested here and therefore, I can’t tell if Symfonium’s feature works as intended.
As shown in the screenshot, the normalisation was already enabled.
I had it set to -18 LUFS before, and that did not work. Upon further testing, it seems to work correctly when set to -23 LUFS. So either the clipping protection or something like that kicks in, or the -18 LUFS option does not work correctly. In any case, with -23 LUFS it seems to work in my quick tests.
And sure, I will be opening a new issue if the need arises. Since it works with -23 this solves it for me personally anyway.
