Well, if you’re using bluetooth to hit your stereo you can get a receiver that jacks in and sits next to it to keep the phone dongle-free. There’s real cheap ones and some higher end ones with better DACs in them (if your stereo doesn’t have a DAC). But it’s not much more difficult to set up a DLNA Media Server or get a chromecast receiver to stream to your stereo over wifi without needing to compress the audio the way bluetooth does.

I’ve also got a bluetooth DAC/Amp with a 3.5mm and 4.4mm jack that you can clip onto your clothes. Basically putting the dongle on the end of the headphone cord instead of the phone. But it runs on a charge. You can use any sort of wired headphones that you want (or connect to a stereo) and not have to be physically connected to your phone though.

😆 I do use a dongle anyway. Even if I bluetooth it, I’ll have a DAC/Amp with a jack.

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I’ve finally accepted the death of the 3.5mm jack. But no sd card is bullshit.

E/os is working for me tho. Realized I don’t even need microG to have permissions for anything other than notifications and all my stuff works. All I really miss is the ability to chromecast music.

Echoing another user’s suggestion of using Foobar2000. You can also do it by album so the quiet parts of the album remain quiet in relation to the other parts, as they were intended to be.

Create a playlist in Foobar2000.

Add whatever folders.

Select all.

Right-click and go to replaygain

I always choose “scan as albums (by tags)”

and then when it’s done scanning click the button to adjust replaygain in the metadata.