As requested in bug 4391, I've created a new bug for this.

The problem is described in comment 13 of bug 4391.  Playing a FLAC file that has a positive gain value larger than +6.0206 dB, when volume adjustment is enabled, causes SoftSqueeze v3.6 to give the following error:

8    [AudioMixer-0] WARN  javasound  - audio mixer exception
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Requested value 17.360008 exceeds allowable
maximum value 6.0206.
        at javax.sound.sampled.FloatControl.setValue(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.media.sound.DirectAudioDevice$DirectDL$Gain.setValue(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.titmuss.softsqueeze.audio.AudioMixer.setVolume(AudioMixer.java:198)
        at
org.titmuss.softsqueeze.audio.AudioMixer.bufferEvent(AudioMixer.java:639)
        at org.titmuss.softsqueeze.audio.AudioBuffer.read(AudioBuffer.java:445)
        at
org.titmuss.softsqueeze.audio.AudioMixer.playSamples(AudioMixer.java:488)
        at org.titmuss.softsqueeze.audio.AudioMixer.run(AudioMixer.java:421)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

and the track not to be played.  Disabled volume adjustment allows the track to play OK.  An example track is comment 3 of bug 4391.

Bug 5119 may be related to this (it's about tracks with positive gain values and clipping)?

Thanks,
Nigel.