Whatever enhancements occur for libFLAC, we certainly should not create a situation where some flag gives different results for one set of users versus another. Normalization of data should be separate from conversion of data. libFLAC should only handle conversion of data. If people want a method for normalizing their audio data, then they should use a DAW or at least a library like libsndfile.
To avoid bloat, libFLAC should merely handle conversion between FLAC compressed and uncompressed samples. Any potential problems where synthetic float waveform samples might clip during conversion to FLAC should be handled by a separate tool. In other words, the file should be processed before it is compressed. There are industry standards for conversion whereby only exact powers of two are used. Anything else doesn't belong in libFLAC. Namely, pow (2,bps-1)-1 should not be used or allowed anywhere in libFLAC. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Feb 9, 2013, at 12:50, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Secondly, the scaling can be switched off don't you? See: > > http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/ > command.html#SFC_SET_NORM_DOUBLE _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
