[vorbis] RC3 Tagging/Encoding and Winamp answer

[Kenneth Arnold]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:22:35PM -0500, Monty wrote:
> 
> > Here's the main reason for my post:  I have figured out how to use
> > Audiograbber and oggenc RC3 to get fully tagged ogg files.  However, the
> > normalizing options are not advanced enough for me - I use sound forge to
> > normalize to an RMS value.
> 
> 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.

Looks quite nice. I've been toying with the idea of a DSP layer in
Ogg123; should I put this there or do you want to manage all that
stuff in the libraries? I can see equally well the overall replaygain
project going either way, in terms of practical implementation.


-- 
Kenneth Arnold <ken at arnoldnet.net>
- "Know thyself."

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