[vorbis] RC3 Tagging/Encoding and Winamp answer

[Monty]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:32:01PM -0100, fungus wrote:
> Monty wrote:
> 
> >
> >RMS still doesn't get 'perceived volume' even.  There's an algorithm
> >called ReplayGain (www.replaygain.org) that normalizes perceived
> >volume and prevents output clipping (a scourge of all lossy codecs).
> >It's not an 'official' part of Vorbis, at least not yet, but I think
> >that at minimum we're going to push adoption of this particular
> >technique, or something alot like it.  It solves a number of common
> >problems, makes people happy, is simple to implement and all the
> >details are public.
> >
> 
> 
> How will you deal with albums which are encoded
> as separate tracks but the tracks are continuous.
> You can't change the volume level between tracks.

True.  ReplayGain will not be mandatory, nor will it be 'sealed
against tampering'.  You'd have the switches and complete control, and
it would likely ship in the 'off' state.  It's intended as a tool to
serve, not enslave ;-)

Monty

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