libebur128 - (yet another) EBU R 128 implementation Options

[Raiden]

Hi,
inspired by the wonderful work in this thread, I wrote my own implementation of the EBU R 128 standard.
It is written in plain ANSI C and designed as a library, so you can use it in your own code. It's licensed under the MIT license.

I've also implemented a simple scanning tool, which outputs something like this:

CODE

$ ./r128-sndfile -l -p both ~/music/bad\ loop\ -\ Luo/*.flac

-12.81 LUFS, LRA: 14.16 LU, sample peak: 0.89151001, true peak: 0.99826229, /home/jan/music/bad loop - Luo/bad loop - Luo - 01 Nio.flac
-11.15 LUFS, LRA: 8.26 LU, sample peak: 0.89163208, true peak: 0.99095666, /home/jan/music/bad loop - Luo/bad loop - Luo - 02 Eri Valeire.flac
-10.14 LUFS, LRA: 11.79 LU, sample peak: 0.89154053, true peak: 0.99171823, /home/jan/music/bad loop - Luo/bad loop - Luo - 03 Kauniit Ihmiset.flac
-11.31 LUFS, LRA: 11.75 LU, sample peak: 0.89157104, true peak: 0.92898595, /home/jan/music/bad loop - Luo/bad loop - Luo - 04 Mmin.flac
-26.13 LUFS, LRA: 14.87 LU, sample peak: 0.25204468, true peak: 0.25203928, /home/jan/music/bad loop - Luo/bad loop - Luo - 05 3b Or T.flac
-14.10 LUFS, LRA: 11.40 LU, sample peak: 0.89151001, true peak: 1.02603507, /home/jan/music/bad loop - Luo/bad loop - Luo - 06 Kannas Nsp.flac
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-11.75 LUFS, LRA: 13.34 LU, sample peak: 0.89163208, true peak: 1.02603507

There is also ReplayGain tagging, using a reference level of -18 LUFS to match RG's loudness:

CODE

r128-mpg123 -t album [FILE|DIRECTORY]...
r128-mpg123 -t track [FILE|DIRECTORY]...

Download current version here.

This post has been edited by Raiden: Feb 27 2011, 22:29

[Raiden]

It turned out that the text output of r128-ffmpeg changed somewhat. You can see it when you pipe the output to e.g. hexdump. So in my case piping the output to bc for calculation causes a syntax error.

Yes, the output changed in the last version a bit... Currently it is not really meant for scripts as it writes everything to stderr. I will try to write something useful to stdout.

And a suggestion: As I said I use your software for calculation of normalization. When it turns out that an audiofile has to be made "louder" I measure the given headroom with sox - actualy another time costing scan. Maybe it would be useful if you add a switch that outputs the highest true-peak within a given file.

I will try to get true peak measurement done for the next version, thanks for the feedback.