Re: [codec] draft-ietf-codec-oggopus and "album" gain

Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org> Tue, 26 August 2014 20:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [codec] draft-ietf-codec-oggopus and "album" gain
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Ron <ron@debian.org> wrote:
>> For example, to produce R128
>> normalized files it's more reliable for post-processing application to
>> update the 'output gain' field and write a comment 'R128_TRACK_GAIN=0'
>> than to put the normalized value directly in the comment."
>
> Should the example there be ALBUM_GAIN rather than track gain
> (consistent with what we recommended before these changes, and
> with what is probably preferred in the absence of finer grained
> recalibration)?

Is there a reason we shouldn't just have two examples?