Don't know if this post will help to solve that issue and it's a shame because Amarok is realy good for all the rest and I really miss it.
Thierry CHEN
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:24:14 +0200 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rapha=EBl_HALIMI?=
> Le 13/10/2012 08:35, David Smith a écrit :
> >> phonon-backend-vlc seems unable to manipulate the sound volume at some point;
> >> manually changing it (with the little speaker icon near the time counter) still
> >> works, but replaygain and fade are broken.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Can you be more specific about "unable to manipulate the sound volume
> > at some point"?
>
> Sorry, I couldn't see how to describe this problem better : what I
> thought to be the "software" volume can be manipulated with Amarok's
> little speaker icon. But now, I'm not sure anymore that this icon
> represents "software" volume, because I just noticed that the volume
> buttons on my keyboard change both the master volume in veromix'
> plasmoid and on this little speaker icon in Amarok, which rather seems
> to represent VLC's volume in pulseaudio. Being a long-time Amarok user,
> I wrongly thought that this icon had the same function as the little
> volume slider that was at the same place in Amarok 1.
>
> > fade is not (yet) supported by VLC phonon backend for Amarok. VLC is
> > simply lacking the implementation for the feature. See here:
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287124
> >
> > Since fade is not supported by the VLC phonon backend, it's
> > recommended to disable fade-out in Amarok when you use the VLC phonon
> > backend.
>
> I see. sorry, I didn't know. Now that you mention it, fade doesn't work
> with Gstreamer backend either (but replaygain does).
>
> > For ReplayGain, can you make sure you don't have conflicting gain
> > tags? Check if your files have a replaygain_track_peak tag, and if
> > so, remove it.
> >
> > As far as I know, Amarok itself does not calculate ReplayGain values,
> > you need to have a 3rd party app calculate it and store the
> > information in a ID3 tag.
> >
> > I have just tested using mp3gain from Wheezy with the Amarok from
> > Wheezy and the ReplayGain feature in Amarok works fine for me here
> > with both the gstreamer and vlc backends. Of course, I made sure
> > ReplayGain was enabled in Amarok in the menu. If you've used older
> > mp3gain versions, it's very possible you could end up with conflicting
> > ReplayGain tags which is known to cause problems as Amarok doesn't
> > know which tag to use and may decide to use the wrong one (or
> > neither). Also, if you use a very old version of mp3gain, the tag
> > might get ignored by Amarok completely.
>
> Most of my files are Ogg, but neither my MP3 files nor my Ogg files have
> any replaygain tags in them (clementine, which can use replaygain values
> stored in files as tags but can't calculate them - just as you say
> Amarok 2 does - doesn't adjust the volume either).
>
> IIRC Amarok 1 did calculate replaygain values (either by itself or by
> calling mp3gain/vorbisgain, I'm not sure) and stored them in its config
> directory. Since replaygain works in Amarok 2 with the Gstreamer
> backend, I think Amarok 2 imported these values from Amarok 1's
> configuration during first launch.
>