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		General
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This plugin is an alpha version of an ReplayGain implementation. 

What does it do?
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Not all CDs sound equally loud. The perceived loudness of mp3s is even more variable. Whilst different musical moods require that some tracks should sound louder than others, the loudness of a given CD has more to do with the year of issue or the whim of the producer than the intended emotional effect. If we add to this chaos the inconsistent quality of mp3 encoding, it's no wonder that a random play through your music collection can have you leaping for the volume control every other track. (taken from the http://replaygain.hydrogenaudio.org/)

This plugin tries to ajust a track volume so that you don't have to change the volume after each track.
The first time you play a song, it will be analysed (may need several seconds) to calculate the optimal gain to apply to the track. Next time you play the track, it should be almost immediate as the gain value in stored in a file.


Settings
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* Enable ReplayGain plugin : allow you to disable the plugin

* Auto disable if hig CPU usage detected : If you like to play games while playing, you may encounter LONG silence between 2 songs with this plugin. As the game uses almost all the cpu cycles, song analyse is very long. To avoid the silences, you can active this option. If the CPU is used at 90 % or more for at least 20 seconds, songs not yet in the database won't be analysed and will be played normally and immediately. The song will be analysed next time you play it.
It hasn't been tested with Windows 9X.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At least under windows 2k/xp, activating this feature may cause Sonique2 to behave anormally (when you try to open a new interface for example). Use at your own risk.

* If the signal is clipping : because the signal may be amplified by the plugin, it may exceed the maximal value. 
		- Hard limit : clips the peaks to the max value
		- Reduce gain : adapt the gain to remain under the max value

* Pre - amplification : active or not the pre amplification. It allow you to add a constant gain to the song.





Note
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Song analyse is slow. On my computer (Athlon XP 2100+), 
around 1s of analyse using all the CPU is requiered for 1min of audio. 
This may change depending of the compression.



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	Install
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The zip contains a few files needed to register
everything.  If running batch files is too much
for you to handle, then don't bother until a later
release.  Ok...

1) Unzip the files to your sq2 directory
2) run the file reg_ReplayGain.bat
3) open sonique2 and proceed to use.


