On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 20:05 +0100, fons(a)kokkinizita.net wrote:
OTOH, compressing a classical piece from 40dB dynamic
range to just a few dB is certainly 'over-compressing'
to my taste, yet it would probably make little or no
differerence to the value measured by 'normalize -n'.
Maybe what would be good is a thing that displays a histogram of dynamic
range, so you can see the spread of loudness in a sample.
Gordon MM0YEQ