# MP3GAIN

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3gain/13875
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 13, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3gain/13875 "2012-09-13T20:43:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![cldcp00](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@cldcp00](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cldcp00)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3gain/13875/1 "2012-09-13T20:43:24Z")

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Could somebody explain to me how MP3gain works within MP3tag.  
I have insatlled it as a tool and it runs ok but the command prompt screen closes before I can see the results.  
Does it pupulate a field in MP3tag?

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3gain/13875/2 "2012-09-14T04:28:21Z")

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> [@Dego](#):
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> Does it pupulate a field in MP3tag?

WHo knows? But you can check in the Extended Tags dialogue (press Alt-T).

Second, if you try to use that program from within MP3tag: how did you include it?  
Have you checked, what kind of parameters have to get handed over in the command line?

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### Author: ![stanman](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@stanman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/stanman)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3gain/13875/3 "2012-09-14T15:29:57Z")

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When you process an Mp3 file with MP3Gain it writes an APE tag, so make sure you check the APE box under Read in Mp3tag.

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### Author: ![HansBKK](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@HansBKK](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/HansBKK)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3gain/13875/4 "2012-09-17T15:31:42Z")

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I use Foobar2000 to do tag-based ReplayGain for both track- and album-leveling (NOT hard-coding the new levels in the audio encoding itself) and IMO that's the way to go.

I believe it uses the native ID3/Vorbis tags for MP3/FLAC respectively rather than APE.

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3gain/13875/5 "2026-02-09T12:24:03Z")

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