[vorbis-dev] replaygain support

[Jack Pavlovsky]

John Morton wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 November 2003 13:08, Paul Martin wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:40:49AM +0300, Jack Pavlovsky wrote:
>> > I know this is off-topic, but I'd just like to know if ogg123 is
>> > going to support REPLAYGAIN tags (I've seen that it prints the
>> > replaygain comments, but that's just about it), and if so, in what
>> > timeline?
>>
>> And while you're at it, add a "--gain" option to ogg123. It could be in
>> dB or a percentage (like mpg321).
> 
> 
> The vgplay backend code does this, and provides limiting options:
> 
> http://www.nongnu.org/vgplay/
> 
> 
>> I did suggest an ov_read_gain() function, with code, at least a year
>> ago.
> 
> 
> It depends on how xiph want to treat libvorbisfile. Right now it contains 
> helper functions to make decoding and encoding more straight forward, but 
> this doesn't include the kinds of things that are in flac's plugin helper 
> library (which includes replaygain calcuations, I believe). 
> 
> If they where to remain separate, it would be useful to have the integer pcm 
> packing code as a separate function, though.
> 
> John
> 
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Renamed subject.

So, is there any consensus among libvorbisfile developers as what to do with replaygain?
After all, who decides this stuff? - maybe send this question to them?
Replaygain is a good feature and easy to implement. It has to be added somewhere in the
code (default vorbis-tools should support it).


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