I have just committed the music package for FreeSWITCH into the NetBSD pkgsrc tree. I am now working on the sounds package. I looked at the FreeBSD port (their version of our pkgsrc) and they run a sox command on the files something of like this: sox -v 0.2 <filename> -r 8000 -c 1 /tmp/<filename> The -v option adjusts the volume. Does this seem like a reasonable thing to do in general? The default adjustment (0.2) lowers it quite a bit. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain System Administrator, Vex.Net http://www.Vex.Net/ IM:darcy@Vex.Net
Actually that's just cause someone doesn't like the volume they are done at... The same person also tends to overdrive stuff all the time imho On 10/20/12 10:45 AM, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@Vex.Net> wrote:
I have just committed the music package for FreeSWITCH into the NetBSD pkgsrc tree. I am now working on the sounds package.
I looked at the FreeBSD port (their version of our pkgsrc) and they run a sox command on the files something of like this:
sox -v 0.2 <filename> -r 8000 -c 1 /tmp/<filename>
The -v option adjusts the volume. Does this seem like a reasonable thing to do in general? The default adjustment (0.2) lowers it quite a bit.
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The files we get from GMVoices are slightly "loud" for some folks, so we run them through sox with the -v 0.2 arg and it "normalizes" them a bit. However, I wouldn't do that same trick again on the sounds files in files.freeswitch.org since they've already been normalized. If you do then you'd definitely be lowering the volume to what many would consider to be a really low level. -MC On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 8:45 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@vex.net> wrote:
I have just committed the music package for FreeSWITCH into the NetBSD pkgsrc tree. I am now working on the sounds package.
I looked at the FreeBSD port (their version of our pkgsrc) and they run a sox command on the files something of like this:
sox -v 0.2 <filename> -r 8000 -c 1 /tmp/<filename>
The -v option adjusts the volume. Does this seem like a reasonable thing to do in general? The default adjustment (0.2) lowers it quite a bit.
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:30:45 -0700 Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:
The files we get from GMVoices are slightly "loud" for some folks, so we run them through sox with the -v 0.2 arg and it "normalizes" them a bit. However, I wouldn't do that same trick again on the sounds files in files.freeswitch.org since they've already been normalized. If you do then you'd definitely be lowering the volume to what many would consider to be a really low level.
That may explain the low sounds in the FreeBSD port then. I have finished putting the music and sounds files into NetBSD's pkgsrc tree. I am now starting on the core package. More to come. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain System Administrator, Vex.Net http://www.Vex.Net/ IM:darcy@Vex.Net
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:
The files we get from GMVoices are slightly "loud" for some folks, so we run them through sox with the -v 0.2 arg and it "normalizes" them a bit. However, I wouldn't do that same trick again on the sounds files in files.freeswitch.org since they've already been normalized. If you do then you'd definitely be lowering the volume to what many would consider to be a really low level.
FWIW, I seem to recall using this switch for normalising audio: sox --norm 'Automatically invoke the gain effect to guard against clipping and to normalise the audio.' However, it has been a while since trying and I usually fumble abound with sox args for a while before getting it right. Best, Gabe
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D'Arcy J.M. Cain
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Ken Rice
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