Hi Brent!

On Tue, 09 Oct 2001, Brent Geery wrote:

> For some unknown reason, there seems to be hostile resistance to
> adding a simple balance adjusting feature to LAME.  I'm not sure I
> understand the hostility.  It wouldn't add an load to the programmers
> load, as the functions are already there in the --scale function.

   I don't understand what you mean with "resistance". You are
forgetting the real purpose of lame is not to process audio; it
was a generous gift that some processing is already done with
it, but the real solution is to use the proper tools.

   If you are in a unix enviroment, simply piping the audio to
the proper tool before giving it to lame would do. Ideally, you
should not even resample or lowpass with lame itself.

   Else, you have to use the tools available for your
enviroment. Maybe you should find a frontend Razorlame like
program that could make use of many little applications
together. It would be great, for instance, to resample with
ssrc and then feed the output to lame. Simple to do it in unix
like enviroments, dunno about the "redmond" products.

> 
> Some are arguing against the feature, simply because they don't think
> *they* wouldn't use it.  This is both childish, and insensitive.  What
> do you care if someone else finds a use for the simple-to-add feature?
> 
> I should also add, that this feature is also useful when encoding some
> LP sources.  Some LPs have a unbalanced stereo effect caused by bad
> pressing, and this feature can be used to restore the proper balance.


   In any case, like in any open project, you are not supposed
to *ask* but to _give_. That means, do the patch, submit it,
and hope for the best. Can't program? That's sad; you can't
force anyone to do it for you, specially the few lame
developers that are already *very* busy focusing on the
priority things.


   This message goes also to the person requesting better
documentation; maybe its time to find the answers for himself,
make a patch to update the documentation and submit the
changes.


   Give people, give; don't just ask. (unless you are willing
to pay full time jobs, that is ;)


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