Hi Johnny!
They’re two completely different issues.
Cnbau said: "Many songs end with a fade-out", indicating that it’s the natural fade-out of songs he wants to keep. Breakaway does undo this — since it’s a volume-levelling dynamics processor, it’ll keep turning the volume up (to counteract the fadeout), by the set speed, until it runs out of range. There is also a control that sets how much power it has over the dynamics.
Demodave, on the other hand, noticed a problem with "artificial" fadeouts created by his Karaoke program adjusting the pipeline volume downwards. By default, the pipeline is set to ignore such volume commands and run full blast at all times, so this would completely remove the fadeout.
However, once Demodave has enabled the pipeline volume control, he may still run into the same problem that Cnbau did, and in that case he’d have to turn down the Range control a bit as well.
It’s a tradeoff — too little range means that it won’t be able to normalize songs that are too quiet. Too much range means it will normalize things that were supposed to be quiet. 😉
///Leif