I would love to see Replay Gain added, or atleast some sort of way for Osu! to output all songs in the same audio volume range. The biggest advantage would be not having the users destroy the mp3 files if they need to lower or raise the volume on the song they are working on. Replaygain adds a value to the file, it doesn't alter the files data more than a ID3 tag would do.
Quality point of view.
As most of you are aware of mp3 is a lossy format, meaning it doesn't contain all information from the source. One should never, under any circumstances use applications to raise or lower the volume of a file that has been encoded already since it will be encoded again, but this time from an already lossy source. Basically, it would be like saving a jpeg over and over again. This would get rid of that problem. The audio quality on some of the songs in Osu! are not very good, But depending on the speakers people are using, or the audio level people play it might not be noticed very well, if at all. But for some it can make a song unplayable. (So far I've stumbled upon just one song that is unplayable because of this though, James beatmap Sweater - No. 7. It's just one big mess of distortion.
Anyway, I almost cried when I saw a user being recommended to use a program to raise the audio level on a mp3, it's wrong, and it's bad.
Overall audio levels.
Some song have the volume way up, some songs way down. If you for example play this game with a volume that could be considered high, you will probably hurt if you stumble upon a song which has it's peak too high. Ears will burst, hearts will stop. And you will, sometimes even be scared shitless and paralyzed with fear. (And you would possibly also lose)
I'm not sure it's even possible to add this to Osu! Or if anyone else even considers it a problem that this is not present. But now I have done what I could and added a formal request of it atleast. Ciao!
Quality point of view.
As most of you are aware of mp3 is a lossy format, meaning it doesn't contain all information from the source. One should never, under any circumstances use applications to raise or lower the volume of a file that has been encoded already since it will be encoded again, but this time from an already lossy source. Basically, it would be like saving a jpeg over and over again. This would get rid of that problem. The audio quality on some of the songs in Osu! are not very good, But depending on the speakers people are using, or the audio level people play it might not be noticed very well, if at all. But for some it can make a song unplayable. (So far I've stumbled upon just one song that is unplayable because of this though, James beatmap Sweater - No. 7. It's just one big mess of distortion.
Anyway, I almost cried when I saw a user being recommended to use a program to raise the audio level on a mp3, it's wrong, and it's bad.
Overall audio levels.
Some song have the volume way up, some songs way down. If you for example play this game with a volume that could be considered high, you will probably hurt if you stumble upon a song which has it's peak too high. Ears will burst, hearts will stop. And you will, sometimes even be scared shitless and paralyzed with fear. (And you would possibly also lose)
I'm not sure it's even possible to add this to Osu! Or if anyone else even considers it a problem that this is not present. But now I have done what I could and added a formal request of it atleast. Ciao!