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One of the recent updates introduced an annoying bug so that makes the last song a playlist played from the music library ignore the replaygain tags and thereby bypasses loudness normalization, meaning the last song of an album is way louder than the rest of the album.

The issue can be worked around by adding more songs to the playlist, but this is really awkward for album-centric listeners like me.

Hi @Shpadoinkle,

 

Thanks for the information. We’d like to investigate this further, but we need some more information to try to reproduce this. 

 

  • Are you currently running S1 or S2 on your Sonos players?
  • Could you please provide at least two (2) examples of the replaygain tags that are failing to be read?

 

Feel free to reply here or send me a direct message if that’s preferred.

Hi James,

 

I am running S2 on my players.

Here’s an example for the tags on two songs that had the issue:

 Metadata:
    ALBUM           : Fortitude
    album_artist    : Gojira
    ARTIST          : Gojira
    COPYRIGHT       : ℗ 2021 Roadrunner Records, Inc.
    DATE            : 2021
    disc            : 1
    TITLE           : Grind
    DISCTOTAL       : 1
    TRACKTOTAL      : 11
    track           : 11
    replaygain_album_gain: -10.68 dB
    replaygain_album_peak: 1.000000
    replaygain_track_gain: -11.22 dB
    replaygain_track_peak: 0.982766

Metadata:
    ALBUM           : The Fifth Season
    ARTIST          : Sacrilege
    DATE            : 1997
    disc            : 1
    TITLE           : Sorg
    DISCTOTAL       : 1
    TRACKTOTAL      : 10
    track           : 10
    replaygain_album_gain: -11.60 dB
    replaygain_album_peak: 0.988159
    replaygain_track_gain: -11.24 dB
    replaygain_track_peak: 0.987823

Again, if you add more songs to the playlist and then restart the song, replaygain tags are once again recognized and the volume is dropped.

 

 

Thanks for the examples. I’ve passed the information over to our engineering team for investigation, and I’ll let you know if we need any further info. :slight_smile:

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