To use this script, simply run it on your Music library directory. The
help text (rganalysis.py --help) contains (almost) all you need to
know:
usage: rganalysis.py [-h] [-f] [-i] [-n] [-g auto] [-j 2] [-q] [-v]
[music_directories [music_directories ...]]
Add replaygain tags to your music files.
positional arguments:
music_directories Directories in which to search for music files.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-f, --force-reanalyze, --force_reanalyze
Reanalyze all files and recalculate replaygain values,
even if the files already have valid replaygain tags.
Normally, only files without replaygain tags will be
analyzed.
-i, --include-hidden, --include_hidden
Do not skip hidden files and directories.
-n, --dry-run, --dry_run
Don't modify any files. Only analyze and report gain.
-g auto, --gain-type auto, --gain_type auto
Can be "album", "track", or "auto". If "track", only
track gain values will be calculated, and album gain
values will be erased. if "album", both track and
album gain values will be calculated. If "auto", then
"album" mode will be used except in directories that
contain a file called "TRACKGAIN" or ".TRACKGAIN". In
these directories, "track" mode will be used. The
default setting is "auto".
-j 2, --jobs 2 Number of albums to analyze in parallel. The default
is the number of cores detected on your system.
-q, --quiet Do not print informational messages.
-v, --verbose Print debug messages that are probably only useful if
something is going wrong.
When doing "album" or "audiophile" Replay Gain tags, one needs to carefully define an album. For example, if you happen to have half an album in FLAC format and the other half in MP3, they might be at different volumes to begin with, so calculating Replay Gain tags on the whole album is a bad thing -- the MP3s will end up too loud and the FLACs too quiet, or vice versa.
Anyway, this script considers two tracks to belong to the same "track set" for the purposes of calculating audiophile gain if:
- They have the same album name tag
- They have the same disc number tag (or lack thereof)
- They are in the same directory on the filesystem
- They are both the same music format (MP3, OGG, FLAC, etc.)
I may add "same album artist" to this list in the future
Transfercoder, a tool for transferring your music to your portable mp3 player while simultaneously transcoding music formats that the player doesn't recognize.