Re: multimedia and normalizers (was: normalizers)

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

> > >     Normalize is an overly complicated tool for adjusting the volume of
> > >     wave files to a standard volume level.  This is useful for things
> > >     like creating mp3 mixes, where different recording levels on
> > >     different albums can cause the volume to vary greatly from song to
> > >     song.
> > 
> > Does this do anything that sox doesn't do?  I'm just curious, not necessarily
> > saying that it shouldn't be packaged.
> 
> I don't know. The only thing I found about sox and normalization is
> this:
> 
>        .dat      Text Data files
> [...]

There is a sox option to change the volume, and another one to show
the volume to be used. In short:

sox -v `sox whatever.wav -e stat -v 2>&1` whatever.wav output.wav

normalizes whatever.wav into output.wav.

(I'm not necessarily saying that it shouldn't be packaged either...).