Re: [SoX-users] stats: reporting separate Flat factor for min/max

[Rob S. <aq...@ya...>]

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> From: Eric Wong <nor...@yh...>
> To: sox...@li...
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> Sent: Monday, 24 September 2012, 1:25
> Subject: [SoX-users] stats: reporting separate Flat factor for min/max
> 
> Hi all, I've noticed "Flat factor" in the stats output combines 
> the
> min/max run counts into one statistic.
> 
> Wouldn't it be more useful to separate them into two statistics?
> 
> "Flat factor (min)" and "Flat factor (max)"
> 
> When adding gain/compressing/limiting my recordings, I don't think I
> need to care about min_runs at all, right?


IIRC, min is the largest magnitude negative values. So one would normally expect the flatness for min and max to be similar values (unless there is a DC offset, which is indicated in another stats line). So, maybe I'm missing something, but I cant see a great need to show both.

Cheers,
Rob