Bug 44726

Summary:	RFE: way to "even out" volume of my music collection
Product:	[Unmaintained] noatun	Reporter:	Miloslav Trmac <mitr>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Multimedia Bugs <multimedia-bugs-null>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Other
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Miloslav Trmac 2002-07-04 20:20:44 UTC

(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           noatun
Version:           KDE 3.0.2 
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
Compiler:          Not Specified
OS:                Not Specified
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

Hello
Wouldn't it be nice if (yeah right just ignore this wishlist item ;-) there were a way to associate a "volume multiplier" to each music file?

The CDs I have songs grabbed from don't have too similar ideas of "comfortable volume" and I like to have my playlist randomly permuted. Therefore I find myself adjusting the volume every second or third track.

I thought it would be possible to add an attribute to the noatun playlist (or ID3 tag to the file but this provides opportunities of denial-of-hearing attacks for people sharing music) which would be automatically applied every time the song is played.

Even better would be if there were an application that would go through the whole playlist and set default values to these volume weights (according to maximum/average/mean volume or whatever) however slow it would be. I certainly don't mind letting the computer run overnight to compute this and then just adjust the result.

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)

Comment 1 Charles Samuels 2002-07-06 18:32:49 UTC

Want you Smoove perhaps:

http://apps.kde.com/na/2/info/id/1677?irp=f&sid=d60035c88e8e8633acb62d70da11c691

torsdag 04 juli 2002 01:20 pm skrev mitr@volny.cz:
> Package: noatun
> Version: KDE 3.0.2
> Severity: wishlist
> Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
> Compiler:          Not Specified
> OS:                Not Specified
> OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified
>
> Hello
> Wouldn't it be nice if (yeah right just ignore this wishlist item ;-)
> there were a way to associate a "volume multiplier" to each music file?
>
> The CDs I have songs grabbed from don't have too similar ideas of
> "comfortable volume" and I like to have my playlist randomly permuted.
> Therefore I find myself adjusting the volume every second or third track.
>
> I thought it would be possible to add an attribute to the noatun playlist
> (or ID3 tag to the file but this provides opportunities of
> denial-of-hearing attacks for people sharing music) which would be
> automatically applied every time the song is played.
>
> Even better would be if there were an application that would go through the
> whole playlist and set default values to these volume weights (according to
> maximum/average/mean volume or whatever) however slow it would be. I
> certainly don't mind letting the computer run overnight to compute this and
> then just adjust the result.
>
> (Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
>
>
> (Complete bug history is available at http://bugs.kde.org/db/44/44726.html)
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Comment 2 Miloslav Trmac 2002-07-07 00:02:20 UTC

On Sat Jul 06 2002 at 11:32:49AM -0700 Charles Samuels wrote:
> Want you Smoove perhaps:
> 
> http://apps.kde.com/na/2/info/id/1677?irp=f&sid=d60035c88e8e8633acb62d70da11c691
Yes that's great (more so after seeing how little code it is). Thanks a lot.
Mirek