All this new stuff on "Music" - but does Plex have Volume Levelling? ReplayGain? R128?

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Been watching Plex now for well over a year and always read the blurbs when it comes to the Music area. The one that I got yesterday “Sing more than just carols this season” has a ton of new music detail.

But I cannot find one single piece of text anywhere to indicate that Plex has any ability to read, apply or even acknowledge volume levelling for any format.

With today’s loudness wars still in full assault - it is impossible to enjoy any music server system in any capacity without some way to ensure that a mix is going to be played with all tracks in the same ballpark in terms of dynamic range and loudness.

Plex seems to be doing everything BUT dealing with this? I would have thought it would rank a little higher than “lyrics” in terms of standard features.

If I am missing something here - my apologies - but I do not believe I am.

Cheers!

Sonic.

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Another marketing blurb today “The love train won’t stop!” But still no word or hint that volume levelling is being considered for Plex?

Comments?

Sonic

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Yeah, its a bummer. Plex Mixes work really well for me, but I can’t really use it seriously without replaygain/r128 support of some form. At some point i’m going to be driven to just clone my library for Plex only and re-encode them to mp3s with mp3gain or something.

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This is needed before Plex (RasPlex, Chromecast Audio) can compete with Roon and LMS, Squeezebox as a music server.

ReplayGain and Gapless playback with flac files.

Implement Smart Gain and the ability to turn it on , off.
Playing a album Album Gain should be used.
Playing random mix Track Gain should be used.

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As a new user to Plex i can’t agree more. Volume normalization and crossfade are basic features which are vital for any music experience today apart from fancy looking ui stuff. Although I presume both are rather far from being easily implemented.

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Please, I (we) need this!

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Wow - 18 months since I first posted and still not even a hint of interest from Plex on this?

Are they incapable of actually coding this? Or is Music so far off the beaten path here in 2017 that they simply do not care?

This is a basic function supplied in a circa 2007 iPod - and we cannot get this system to have it? I cannot believe the sheer ignorance to this area.

Sonic

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A lot more than 18 months ago I started using MP3Gain/Xmedia Recode. All my levels are just fine, thanks.

I’m not too sure I’d trust Plex to mess with my media in that way. They’re messing up everything else at an alarming rate so let’s not give 'em any opportunities to reach a new level of SUCK.

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@JuiceWSA said:
A lot more than 18 months ago I started using MP3Gain/Xmedia Recode. All my levels are just fine, thanks.

I’m not too sure I’d trust Plex to mess with my media in that way. They’re messing up everything else at an alarming rate so let’s not give 'em any opportunities to reach a new level of SUCK.

Well - I have 80,000 FLAC files that I would like to use in their native format so MP3Gain is of little use to me.

And - I do not expect Plex to actually mess with anything - I would expect it to be able to read/process standard ReplayGain tags like many other apps already do without actually changing the file in anyway.

Sonic.