Why FFmpeg Loudness & Normalization Guides Are All Wrong, Evil & Immoral!
The Wrong Way There are SEVERAL guides online telling you how to normalize audio to provide a great listening experience by using FFmpeg’s “loudnorm” filter. Most walk you through a simple process called “track normalization.” You set a goal loudness, and adjust every piece of audio up or down to match that loudness. This is evil and immoral and I’ll tell you why: Loudnorm changes the way things sound! Loudnorm crushes dynamics!...