[vorbis-dev]Newbie question

[Segher Boessenkool]

Rob D wrote:
> 
> The problem isnt with finding a place to store the settings. They are stored
> in a separate database, works fine, and is per album, and not per song
> anyway.
> 
> You are right in that it wouldnt make sense to store volume/EQ settings in
> the file, because as you mentioned, the sound system it is played back on
> has a huge affect on the sound relationship.
> 
> The problem is not knowing how to tell the decoder I want 85% volume as
> opposed to the normal volume when it is creating the PCM samples.

The least-processor-intensive way of doing this would be to either scale
the floor-decibels table, or the mdct windows.  You'll have to hack this
into the libs yourself, though.

<p>Segher
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