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

["Thomas de Grivel" <billitch@gmail.com>]

2007/10/22, 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.

I would call that "Normalize" but there is already an effect under
this name which always normalize at the same level (sadly). I believe
gaining to an absolute level should be called normalization, and for a
relative level Amplify sounds good to me.
>From this point of view, the repeat menu is ok and we should just make
the normalization level adjustable (it should be quite easy to do).

-- 
  Thomas de Grivel