After doing some more testing, I found that FLAC > Vorbis preserves
ReplayGain tags while conversion to mp[34] does not. Sounds like a
GStreamer issue. Not really sure.

As far as ReplayGain playback is concerned, the plugin does not work
correctly. It lowers the volume but none of the settings have any effect.

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015, 08:22 Calvin Walton <calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 23:55 -0700, Unknown wrote:
> > I was looking at the code to see how I can get GStreamer to transfer
> > ReplayGain information. I found that the information is obtained
> > through the database. I also noticed that RHYTHMDB_PROP_TRACK_GAIN
> > and
> > the others were marked as obsoleted. And sure enough, the database
> > does
> > not contain those values. Any chance to bring them back?
>
> At this point, the Rhythmbox core doesn't actually store or use any
> ReplayGain information directly.
>
> The way ReplayGain currently works is that an rgvolume¹ GStreamer
> element is added to decoding/playback pipeline; this takes the
> ReplayGain info directly off the GStreamer bus where it was put by the
> demuxer or decoder element.
>
> The only reason to store ReplayGain in the Rhythmbox database might be
> to satisfy user's curiosity - it could be displayed in a column or
> shown in the track properties, I guess. Not really sure if that's worth
> it :)
>
> 1)
> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-good-plugins/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-rgvolume.html
>
> --
> Calvin Walton <calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca>
>
>
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