ReplayGain randomly playing extremely low

As per the title, my Fuze randomly will play some songs extremely low to the point of inaudibility.  I tag using MP3Tag and do ReplayGain with Foobar 2000 (the main tagging is NOT handled by Foobar).  The mp3s are all self-encoded at LAME 3.98.2 --preset extreme.  The only tags used are artist, title, genre, album, year and track number.  The Fuze will play the problematic song low again and again UNTIL I TURN IT OFF AND BACK ON.  The next time I turn it on, that song will be fine - another song will randomly become the scapegoat.  Firmware has been downloaded and flashed again to ensure viability.

Based on the above, I’m thinking that this is a firmware bug.

Thoughts?

Read the updated first post in the firmware thread.  Sandisk has acknowledged the replay gain bug for v2s and are working on another update to fix it.

I don’t have a V2.

@roj wrote:

As per the title, my Fuze randomly will play some songs extremely low to the point of inaudibility.  I tag using MP3Tag and do ReplayGain with Foobar 2000 (the main tagging is NOT handled by Foobar).  The mp3s are all self-encoded at LAME 3.98.2 --preset extreme.  The only tags used are artist, title, genre, album, year and track number.  The Fuze will play the problematic song low again and again UNTIL I TURN IT OFF AND BACK ON.  The next time I turn it on, that song will be fine - another song will randomly become the scapegoat.  Firmware has been downloaded and flashed again to ensure viability.

 

Based on the above, I’m thinking that this is a firmware bug.

 

Thoughts?

When they added the ReplayGain feature, they did it with MediaMonkey, not foobar2k…so maybe that has something to do with it?

It could well be.

I was hoping to avoid that by having mp3tag do the main tagging.  Also, PP has a long track record of being a stickler for following the specs of a given function.  If there is any discrepancy, it’s the folks who built MM who slipped up.  I **REALLY** don’t want to add another piece of junk to my system. :frowning: