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Allan Day

20 Sep, 2023 07:09 PM

Hey all. I have a question about this preference in Beatunes. A few years back, I went through my entire music library and applied Replay Gain to all tracks. Recently, I changed the LUFS value and ran my library through another Analyzation of Replay Gain, overwriting the existing values from a few years back. Upon completion, I noticed that there were some error messages and now I'd like to run Analyze again with the same LUFS value as this last round.

My question is: if I uncheck the "replace existing replay gain" box, will it exclude songs in the Analysis that have already been set to the new LUFS value, or does this mean the tracks will now have 2 Replay Gain values? I want to spare myself an entire library scan/overwrite. Thanks!

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by hendrik on 21 Sep, 2023 09:13 AM

   

   It will simply not overwrite the existing values. There cannot be two values.

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2. 2 Posted by Allan Day on 21 Sep, 2023 10:54 AM

   

   So, essentially, it will skip all songs with the same values, and apply the
   new values only to songs with different values. Is that correct?

   If this is not correct, how do I assign the new values only to songs with
   different values for a mass library analysation?

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by hendrik on 22 Sep, 2023 08:44 AM

   

   So, essentially, it will skip all songs with the same values, and apply the new values only to songs with different values. Is that correct?

   No, it will not even compute ReplayGain, if any value is already set.

   how do I assign the new values only to songs with different values for a mass library analysation?

   I don't quite understand.

   • If the value is the same, no change will happen.
   • If the value is different, it will be overwritten, if you enable "replace existing"
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4. 4 Posted by Allan Day on 22 Sep, 2023 10:55 AM

   

   So, there's no way to filter out songs that already have the matching value
   so that Beatunes only recognizes songs with different LUFS values so I get
   a faster analysation?

   Example: I only want to target songs that have a different LUFS Replay Gain
   value than -14.

   I have almost 70,000 songs in my library, which takes a few days of
   processing. This is why I'm asking.

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