Noatun Normalize
The project aims to develop a normalization plugin for the KDE media
player Noatun.
It is composed of two parts, an Arts effect that handles the actual
normalization of the played samples, and a Noatun plugin, that reads
the relative volume adjustments and passes them to the effect. There
are two ways the plugin can retrieve the relative volume adjustments:
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it looks for the respective mp3 id3v2 tags or ogg tags which can be
set by tools like normalize
and vorbisgain,
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it runs these tools itself and stores the results in the playlist
item's meta data. Thus the files won't be changed.
Remarks
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For ogg vorbis normalization to work you need the latest vorbisgain version
(0.36).
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For mp3 or wav normalization you need the normalize
program.
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Make sure to install the package under the same prefix as artsd
otherwise arts will not find the NoatunNormalize effect.
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If there is popular demand for it I would try to remove the
dependency on the external programs and integrate them into the
plugin itself.
Obstacles
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Scott Wheeler's TagLib must be patched to provide correct reading
of RVA2 id3v2 mp3 tags. See bug #95545.
