Weird volume normalisation behavior

[RossRoy]

I am trying to get some classical music to sound like it's "elevator music", meaning constant volume throughout, even on soft passage, because I want to be able to listen to it at work without having to jump on the volume everytime a loud passage comes up.

I used adaptive normalisation with a 6000 msec window size and a desired volume at 100% of maximum. I don't care much about sound quality, I am using 64 Kbps OGG files, seeing as I have crappy speakers and can't hear the distortion or anything.

Well, most of the songs sound nice, with an almost constant volume and I don't have to adjust it much. But then comes one of the song where the volume starts nice, same as the other, but the drops to a whisper before coming slowly back up. It's a march, and it happens a few seconds into the soft part right after the loud intro.

Oh... I think I may have just answered my own question. If the window size is 6 seconds, then it's taking into account 6 seconds, and then, when it's not taking into account the loud part anymore, the sound drops. But then, it shouldn't, it should go up... I'm confused. Can someone explain how adaptive normalisation works?

[Spoons]

i haven't tested it out much myself. but found some interesting threads on it:

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthre...light=adaptive

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthre...light=adaptive

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthre...s=&threadid=12

i also have just noticed there is a "fixed normalization" option as well.

[Spoon]

Yes you would need a smaller window.