[John R Leddy]

My very vague understanding is that how the player handles gain adjustments has changed. Hence no need for the clipping setting, but the levels should be working.

I'm not sure about "...no need for the clipping setting..."

My tracks are replaying as if "prevent clipping according to peak" is applied by default in v17. The effect is albums sold containing deliberately destructive clipping in their tracks now sound far too attenuated, which means I'm back to manually adjusting the volume again.

While having source modes of "off," "use track levels," and "use album levels," don't we also need processing choices of "none," "apply gain," "apply gain and prevent clipping according to peak," and "prevent clipping according to peak?"