[Flac-dev] Normalize?

Josh Coalson xflac at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 29 13:39:32 PST 2001


--- "Jesse W. Hathaway" <jwhathaw at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> I was looking around in the documentation of other lossless decoders
> and noticed that Monkey's Audio supports a normalize feature, the
> ability to play back different music types and keep them in the same
> volume range.  This seems like a nice option to have when playing an
> archived cd collection.  My question is whether this could just be
> done
> at the plugin level or if it would be better to include it in the
> format. Maybe before 1.0 :).
> 
I think normalization should go in the plugin but I was toying with
the idea of adding some metadata that includes the peak level so it
would be easier for the plugin to normalize.  Now that I've thought
about it I think I will add that to the STREAMINFO block.

Josh


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