Bug#447532: "repeat amplify" does not do the same thing as selecting "amplify" again from the menu
On 10/21/07, Thomas de Grivel <billitch@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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).
I confess I had no idea what the normalize effect did. I agree that
it would be nice to have that have an adjustable peak.
However, my concern is not so much what any given effect does, as that
they all do *exactly the same thing* if you select "repeat last
effect" from the menu as they would have done if you had selected them
by name a second time, because that is what a user who doesn't think
about it very much will expect to happen. If you don't want to make
the amplify effect recalculate the amount of amplification when
repeated, then please make it not do that when selected by name,
either. (I can definitely see a use for an effect that always
amplifies by a fixed number of decibels If it started out set to a
constant +3dB, say, and then remembered the setting last used, that
would be fine by me.)
zw
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