About clipping. I've looked at my VGM mp3s and i noticed that about 50% of them clip! So this is obviously a huge problem, which can be solved by using replaygain.
Just check the replaygain_track_peak and you will notice a lot mp3s are well above 1.0. My highest peak mp3 is Sonic_3D_Symphonic_Ruin_OC_ReMix.mp3, which has a peak of 1.817812!
But if you don't (wanna) use replaygain (which i can hardly imagine

) then you should set the pre-amp slider a bit down, untill you don't get clipping anymore. I set it to -4.5dB to avoid clipping of all mp3s.
If you want to know whether a track clips without using replaygain then foobar2000 is once again your friend. You can enable a clipping warning (at preferences -> playback), which will show a warning in the foobar console each time a track clips.
To avoid clipping just lower the pre-amp untill you don't get any warnings anymore.
Cheers, Slogra
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