[Asterisk-Dev] Re: Voicemail to email volume change patch

[Matt Riddell (IT)]

Robert A. Thompson wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:28:31 -0600, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>You aren't normalizing the audio, you are just adjusting the volume. If
>>you are going to go to the work of using an external app, why not use
>>normalize so it truly is normalized and doesn't introduce problems when
>>audio comes from different sources and therefore needs different audio
>>adjustments.
>>
>>Now the trouble with normalize is that it doesn't support very many
>>formats. I think it supports PCM wav and mp3 only. At least sox does
>>have better format support.
> 
> 
> The term normalize is incorrect in hind sight, however it stemmed from
> wanting something that sounded "normal" (after blowing up a pair of
> speakers going from music to voicemail back to music).  
> 
> I'm sure there better ways of doing this and with a little guidance on
> sound processing I would be willing to donate the time to fix it or make
> it better.  This patch stemmed from me getting pissed at the sound
> difference, telling Aaron to change it, him saying it would require
> changing the code, and me saying fine... I opened the file, hacked this in
> and 5 minutes later asked him to put it into production.  We did a quick
> debug session and all seems to be working fine.

What's the bugtracker id for this?

-- 
Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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