[vorbis] Normalising songs

[Nicola Larosa]

 > It lets you hear the quiet spots in a track without having the volume up
 > so high you break things on the loud bits (which is why radio use it).
 > There's probably a plugin for FreeAmp or WinAmp to do that.

I always wonder why there's not a limiter in every music playing piece of 
equipment these days, it's trivial (i.e. cheap) to implement, even with 
analog circuitry.

I realize that most "modern" music is already compressed on disc, and even 
more so on the radio, but there is a sizable amount of nice music, and not 
only classical, that thankfully retains some dynamic variation.

But it is often the case that one would like to listen to such music at a 
low level, or in a noisy environment (cars, portable players), and a 
built-in compressor would be a godsend, much more useful than those "bass 
boost" switches.

Is that a concept with null marketing value, or there's some other problem I 
don't see?

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Nicola Larosa - nico at tekNico.net

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