Package: normalize-audio
Version: 0.7.7-10
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/normalize-mp3
Dear Maintainer,
I recently finished up selecting 900MB of high-quality OGGs I had converted
from FLACs;
as a final step before making a backup, I normalized the audio with
normalize-ogg. I was
shocked to realize my 900MB had somehow become 500MB. All the files seemed to
have shrunk
considerably. Upon checking the man page, I saw
--bitrate BR
Set bitrate of re-encoded file (default 128)
No - you do not irrecoverably delete massive amounts of user data with a quiet
default!
You preserve user data at all costs, or make an explicit opt-in mandatory so
the user
knows what you're doing to his files.
This design decision was a bad idea back in 2001, and it's an even worse idea
now in 2012.
--
gwern
http://www.gwern.net
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APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages normalize-audio depends on:
ii libaudiofile1 0.3.4-1
ii libc6 2.13-35
ii libmad0 0.15.1b-7
Versions of packages normalize-audio recommends:
ii flac 1.2.1-6
ii vorbis-tools 1.4.0-1
Versions of packages normalize-audio suggests:
ii mpg321 0.3.2-1.1
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