some suggestions

Hey Spoon, you rock. I've been using your converter and (aux and Cd ripping) and now have been playing with the player. However, I have a couple suggestions.

1 intelligent Id tagging from the filename would be cool. I've seen it on other players so I know it is possible. You have the opposite feature with the arrange thing, so...

2 when you click on a field in the My music Collection window, It sorts based on that field, but it would be nice if you could do consecutive sorts, or sort by two or more fields. Thus you could select artist, album, and track number and have the collection shown by artist with the albums and tracks in order. This is standard in Winamp...

3 perhaps you could have the track information scroll across the taskbar like some other players.

4 dragging and dropping in the MMC


I can't seem to get the auto volume normalization feature to work. My songs still play at different volume levels.

Lastly, I would like to know how I could become a beta tester.

[Razgo]

to test the beta products simply go to the beta forum on this page.

[donny]

inteligent id taging is partly there... when there is no id tag dAP assumes that the file is named like artist - track.extension . So the file will be added as so in the mmc, and if you need a tag then just right0click on the song and go advanced->rewrite ID tag and it's done.

[Spoon]

>I can't seem to get the auto volume normalization feature to work.

It is a basic peak to peak normalize so if a track is quiet with one loud part, then the loud part will stop the normalize.

Anyhow if you have the Green 'A' light up when a track is added, the next time it is played (on random for non-beta versions) the value is worked out and shown.

Hmmm. It seems to require playing the song through, then it sets a volume level, but that new level still seems quiter than other songs that haven't been normalized. I guess it doesn't normalize to 100% like most people do when encoding. Is this an RMS normalization?

Do I have to let MMC normalize all of my tracks, reducing the volume on those tracks that are already loud?

This may be asking for too much, but how about an adaptive nomalization that changes the boosting or reduction throughout the song? This would keep a loud croud cheer at the end of a live track from spoiling the normalization...

Thank you guys

[Razgo]

i don't know if this is possible but the solution would be where you see "auto volume normalize" , put an option to click "powerpack DSP" so we can select "adaptive noramalzation" from the effects list.

probably easier said then done though.

This feature is only changing the volume of the playback right? It isn't actually normalizing the file permanently. (a good thing)

I noticed that the basic normalization in the DMC is set at 86%. Is this also normalizing at 86%? Why not 99% or 100% for that matter? As an audio engineer and all around studio guy, I know that the higher the signal to noise ratio on any recording the better. (up to but not including the distortion point) In my work we tend to compress (not file compression but audio level compression) tracks and then boost the overall normalization to 100% if possible. Advanced versions of this process are known as finalizing.