Hi list, I would like to introduce vorbisgain to factory. Vorbisgain allows an enduser to have the gain value for a vorbis file calculated so that media players like Amarok can automatically adjust the playback volume. The package has been available for quite some time in Contrib and is now in multimedia:apps. The only drawback of the package is that does not really have an active upstream as it is feature complete. It is however a small program and I have maintained it in Contrib without any issues for several releases now. Below you'll find some additional information. Regards, Matthias What is vorbisgain? =========== VorbisGain is a utility that uses a psychoacoustic method to correct the volume of an Ogg Vorbis file to a predefined standardized loudness. It is meant as a replacement for the normalization that is commonly used before encoding. Although normalization will ensure that each song has the same peak volume, this unfortunately does not say anything about the apparent loudness of the music, with the end result being that many normalized files still don't sound equally loud. VorbisGain uses psychoacoustics to address this deficiency. Moreover, unlike normalization, it's a lossless procedure which works by adding tags to the file. Additionally, it will add hints that can be used to prevent clipping on playback. It is based upon the ReplayGain technology. The end result is that playback is both more convenient and of higher quality compared to a non-VorbisGain'ed file. License ===== LGPL 2.1 Homepage ====== http://sjeng.org/vorbisgain.html Authors ===== Gian-Carlo Pascutto and Magnus Holmgren -- Matthias Bach www.marix.org „Der einzige Weg, die Grenzen des Möglichen zu finden, ist ein klein wenig über diese hinaus in das Unmögliche vorzustoßen.“ - Arthur C. Clarke