Since this forum is about the music capabilities within the Plex ecosystem, I thought I might find the answer here. When music files are analyzed for loudness, they are given a value that is used to to adjust its volume against a standard value. When Plex gives the value to the song, is it solely based between the individual track and the standard or does Plex see the whole album and finds the loudest track in the bunch and uses that against the standard, or maybe the average value against the standard.
I have multiple albums that contain tracks from multiple sources, and their loudness values very greatly in some cases, and it shows because the bonus tracks that were added after the original album make the original tracks notably softer during playback.
Elan, thanks for the reply. Boo for recommendation point number 7. I am guessing in their research they are obtaining the entire album from the same source, whereas I have the original CD and only downloaded the bonus tracks of later reissues from my local library’s Freegal service. I guess to correct the issue would be to download the rest of the album so the ripped gain structure matches. The downloaded tracks are louder than the CD tracks and therefore the CD tracks are significantly softer.
I don’t think “track normalization” would “confuse” people. Probably too much work to implement something like that anyway
