# ReplayGain target (track/album)

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/replaygain-target-track-album/271>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [January 21, 2018, 7:31am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/replaygain-target-track-album/271 "2018-01-21T07:31:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![firewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9a140/32.png) [@firewater](https://discourse.beets.io/u/firewater)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 7:31am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/replaygain-target-track-album/271/1 "2018-01-21T07:31:25Z")

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I was wondering - when using the ReplayGain plugin, is it scanning by album, or track? I’d like to use the track scan only, as I’m interested on normalizing the sound when shuffling songs between albums, but I see no mention of this on the documentation so I’m not sure what’s being done about that.

I’m using mp3gain for it.

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**Author:** ![dorade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b3f665/32.png) [@dorade](https://discourse.beets.io/u/dorade)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 10:37am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/replaygain-target-track-album/271/2 "2018-01-21T10:37:11Z")

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> [@firewater](#):
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> When using the ReplayGain plugin, is it scanning by album, or track?

Album. You have to scan tracks [manually](http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.4.6/plugins/replaygain.html#manual-analysis).

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**Author:** ![firewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9a140/32.png) [@firewater](https://discourse.beets.io/u/firewater)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/replaygain-target-track-album/271/3 "2018-01-22T00:20:59Z")

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Oh, well I thought that would be the case. Thanks.

To be clear, if I have

```
replaygain:
    auto: yes

```

and then after import I run

`beet replaygain "M:/Media/Audio/"`

I’d be having a ReplayGain scan at both album and track level, right?