Bug#447532: "repeat amplify" does not do the same thing as selecting "amplify" again from the menu

[Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>]

Package: audacity
Version: 1.3.3-1+b1
Severity: normal

Most of the operations in audacity's effects menu, if repeated with Ctrl-R
on a different segment of a track, do exactly the same thing as they would
have done if chosen again from the menu.  The "Amplify..." plugin is a
glaring exception.  If you choose it again from the menu and accept the
defaults, it amplifies the currently selected segment to a peak of 0 dB,
just like it did with the previous segment, even if the amplification
factor required to do that is different.  However, if you repeat it with
Ctrl-R, it applies the same amplification factor that it had applied to
the previously selected segment.  This is almost certainly not what you
want.

Much more user-friendly behavior would be to remember the user's chosen
peak volume in decibels, and adjust the amplification factor to hit that
peak volume with each successive segment.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages audacity depends on:
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ii  libc6                       2.6.1-6      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libexpat1                   1.95.8-4     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.2.2-3    GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.14.2-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.12.0-3     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libid3tag0                  0.15.1b-10   ID3 tag reading library from the M
ii  libjack0                    0.103.0-6    JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  libmad0                     0.15.1b-2.1  MPEG audio decoder library
ii  libogg0                     1.1.3-2      Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libsndfile1                 1.0.17-4     Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libstdc++6                  4.2.2-3      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvorbis0a                 1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2               1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3              1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libwxbase2.6-0              2.6.3.2.2-1  wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI
ii  libwxgtk2.6-0               2.6.3.2.2-1  wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t

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