Manual page - dr14_tmeter (1)

NAME

dr14_tmeter - compute the DR14 value of the audio files according to the algorithm described by the Pleasurize Music Foundation. Visit: http://www.dynamicrange.de/

HOMEPAGE

https://github.com/simon-r/dr14_t.meter

DESCRIPTION

DR14 T.meter is a free and opens source command line tool for computing the Dynamic Range of your music according to the procedure used in the off-line meter released by the Pleasurize Music Foundation.

This tool is very useful to measure how is loud your music and for understanding that a good quality album always has also a good dynamic, and it's also useful for understanding the effects of the so called loudness war.

usage: dr14_tmeter [-h] [-v] [-1] [-r] [-a] [-b] [-n] [-p] [-o OUT_DIR] [-t {h,t,b,w,a}] [-f] [-d] [--hist] [--lev_hist] [--spectrogram] [--plot_track] [--plot_track_dst] [--compress {very_soft,v,soft,s,medium,m,hard,h,very_hard,vh}] [--dyn_vivacity] [--files_list] [--quiet] [path_name]

positional arguments: path_name

optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit

-v, --version show program's version number and exit

-1, --disable_multithread Disable the multi-Core mode

-r, --recursive Scan recursively the subdirectories

-a, --append Append all results in a single file; it should be used in couple with -r

-b, --basic_table Write the resulting tables in the basic format

-n, --turn_off_out do not writes the output files

--no_overwrite Skip the directories that already contain the selected output files (e.g. dr14.txt); useful with -r for analyzing only the new albums

-p, --print_std_out writes the full result on the std_out

-o OUT_DIR, --outdir OUT_DIR Write the resultings files into the given directory

-t {h,t,b,w,a}, --tables {h,t,b,w,a} Select the output files to be written. h=html t=text b=bbcode w=mediawiki a=all_formats

-f, --file Compute the DR14 of a single file and exit

-d, --dr_database Output file compatible with the DR database at https://dr.loudness-war.info/

--hist Plot the histogram of dynamic of a single file and exit

--lev_hist Plot the histogram of the saples levels of a single file and exit

--spectrogram Plot the spectrogram of a single file and exit (beta)

--plot_track Plot the track of the given file and exit --plot_track_dst Plot the track in a cool manner of the given file and exit

--compress {very_soft,v,soft,s,medium,m,hard,h,very_hard,vh} Perform the dynamic compression on a single file and exit, the resulting track will be written in a temp directory

--dyn_vivacity Plot the graph of the dynamic vivacity of a single audio file and exit

--files_list takes a files list and compute the DR of each file, if no files are specified, it reads from STDIN

--quiet Quite mode

AUTHOR

Written by Simone Riva.

REPORTING BUGS

Report dr14_tmeter bugs to: https://github.com/simon-r/dr14_t.meter/issues

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) Simone Riva License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.