Replay Gain model lost

[timster67]

A right bummer. My laptop broke a while ago, so have a new one and have been reloading stuff. All good so far.
BUT I have used ReplayGain Album tags on all my FLACs, and I know I didn't use the default settings or even which one. I THINK (99% sure) it was EBU R 128 but what the LUFS Target Volume was I have no idea! I know it wasn't the default -18 though, I remember it being too quiet for my taste.

So - is there anything in the tags that says what scheme or LUFS was used? Or if not, can anyone remember what most people usually set it to? -16? -14?
Having ReplayGain to normalise volume when the new tags no longer match won't be much good!

Ta in advance

[mville]

Re: Replay Gain model lost

Did you backup anything on the laptop, before it broke, like the registry?

How many flacs do you have, you could consider re-writing the RG tags for all flacs?

Most use -18 lufs target.

[Spoon]

Re: Replay Gain model lost

Take an existing file, look at the replaygain values, then run replaygain again on that album, adjust until you get the same first values.

[garym]

Re: Replay Gain model lost

Did you backup anything on the laptop, before it broke, like the registry?

How many flacs do you have, you could consider re-writing the RG tags for all flacs?

Most use -18 lufs target.

Early on, the default RG in dbpa was -23 LUFS. That was too quiet for me too. I was using -18 instead (as it matched up well with the older ReplayGain model). dbpa later changed default to -18. Perhaps you were using -18 too.

[timster67]

Re: Replay Gain model lost

Take an existing file, look at the replaygain values, then run replaygain again on that album, adjust until you get the same first values.

Good idea, I may try that.

Did you backup anything on the laptop, before it broke, like the registry?

How many flacs do you have, you could consider re-writing the RG tags for all flacs?

Most use -18 lufs target.

I do have a system backup, whether that contains such things as the registry I don;t know. And it was an entirely different machine (Intel Windows 7, new one is AMD Windows 10). I suppose it may be possible to have a look but I wouldn't really know where to start!

I have around 10,000 tracks/files - not something I'd like to redo!

Early on, the default RG in dbpa was -23 LUFS. That was too quiet for me too. I was using -18 instead (as it matched up well with the older ReplayGain model). dbpa later changed default to -18. Perhaps you were using -18 too.

Ahhh -23 rings a bell. When was it changed? I can't remember when I had the original dbpa and codec installed, but I guess around 3 years ago for the codec - or if it is in dbpa instead, that would have been nearer 5 years ago.

Anyway, thanks for all the replies/suggestions! Minor panic over

[timster67]

Re: Replay Gain model lost

Excellent. Just did what Spoon suggested. -18 matched it, so that is what it was. I must have had the older one with -23 default
Thanks again all

[mville]

Re: Replay Gain model lost

Excellent. Just did what Spoon suggested. -18 matched it, so that is what it was. I must have had the older one with -23 default
Thanks again all

Yes, that was a good idea, as long as you are certain all 10,000 flacs were tagged the same.

[timster67]

Re: Replay Gain model lost

Yes, that was a good idea, as long as you are certain all 10,000 flacs were tagged the same.

Yup, I did all my library in batches at the same time. New things added used the same since.