Enabling ReplayGain for volume normalization in Rhythmbox
Is there any way to get Rhythmbox to use the ReplayGain plugin to
normalize the volume of songs as it plays them back?
ReplayGain appears to be the way that Rhythmbox is supposed to handle
this. But when I try to enable that plugin on my system (running Ubuntu
13.04 64-bit), it shows a little stop sign icon:
Moving the cursor over the ReplayGain listing in that dialog pops up a
tooltip reading:
The plugin ReplayGain could not be loaded
An error occurred: failed to load
I've Googled around to see if anyone else has experienced this, and found
this bug report on Launchpad. But it's been open for more than 6 months
now and nobody's posted a fix or workaround, so I'm not sure what (if
anything) to do with it. It hasn't even been assigned to anyone to fix, so
it's unclear to me if waiting for 13.10 or a later version will help
either.
So my questions are:
Is ReplayGain support in Rhythmbox just hopelessly busted?
If it isn't, is there some way to get it working on systems where it
doesn't work out of the box?
If it is, is there an alternate way to get volume normalization in
Rhythmbox? Or is the only solution to just use another audio player?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
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