Re: free Orban loudness meter app now available

In article <ao2dncaCm7psWIvVRVnygwA@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>And something I forgot. Get rid of the Start/Stop button. Just stop the 
>meters when choosing the settings tab, and restart when returning.

The Start/Stop button is useful for two things:

1. The meter must be stopped for certain settings to be changed, mainly 
the integration time for the CBS and BS.1770 meters. Doing this on the 
fly is tricky because the integrators weight all samples equally 
within the time window, so there is no natural exponential decay for 
bogus samples that get into the integrator. It's safest just to flush the 
integrators and set all samples to zero when the integration time is 
changed.

2. The meter can be to compute the long-term loudness of program elements 
up to 10 seconds in length. Doing this correctly requires starting the 
meter at the same time that the program element starts.

Bob Orban