I discovered when doing some manual imports with rdimport that the "auto trim" setting is, by default, set to -30 dBFS. This should be, by default, OFF (set to --auto-trim=0).
Let me explain to you why this is a terrible idea and why we have butchered a portion of our music library by not carefully analyzing the stderr output to realize what exactly this binary was doing: A hypothetical song has a fade out. This starts from its average reading of -10 dBFS and fades linearly to -96 dBFS. At -30 dBFS (25% of the way into this fade), the import will abruptly cease and the rest of the fade will be discarded. The result is that instead of the track fading uniformly, it will start to fade and then click off awkwardly. Now, it's likely that there exists a use case to which this is beneficial (why else would the feature be there), but this absolutely screams like it wants to be a DEFAULT OFF feature (like the damn fade between songs in iTunes...). -- Nicholas Andre [email protected] Assistant General Manager WMFO 91.5 Medford www.wmfo.org
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