I'd really love to hear what Mike Crowe ("Mac" here on the BBS) has to say about this.

*Looks around*
Who? me?

Oh, ummmm.

After minimal thought it does look feasible to normalise songs during download or to add a normalise option to emplode which works rather like the "play on empeg" toolbar button.

An alternative (suggested by someone else some time ago) is to analyse the song as it is played the first time through and then store a normalisation value ready for next time.

I think that automatically normalising the next song before it is played is rather too complex. Dealing with track skipping and the fact that the whole of the next track won't actually be cached would require the disk to be spun up much more than is desirable.

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Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)