Pleasurize Music Foundation, call the application with the name DR Metering, DR (Dynamic Range), although for some people, especially among audio experts consider how to label it a little ambiguous, but the result of DR metering is quite useful for all walks of music listeners. They release of a very convenient tool DR Metering the which is compatible with almost all formats and supports direct readout from the CD drive. This fulfills a desire of the DR Manifold user community. Foobar2000 is a free and very versatile media player.
Here's an explanation of the DR application metering and Foobar, I get from the official website Pleasurize Music Foundation:
Dynamic Range Meter - foobar2000 Component
About
Dynamic Range Meter is a foobar2000 component designed to give the same information as the Dynamic Range Offline Meter. This component can process all audio formats foobar2000 can handle (a.o. flac, ape and wavpack) and also supports higher samplerates and bitdepth.
Using the Open Audio CD option it can also directly read audio CDs and calculate the Dynamic Range values without the need of ripping the CD to disk. Log information with extended statistics is automatically copied to the clipboard and can be pasted back in any text editor.
What is foobar2000?
foobar2000 is a free media player with compatibility to almost all relevant audio formats. Please visit the foobar2000 website in order to download the latest update of the player. www.foobar2000.org
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR DR READING!
Please be aware that DR Values may vary for the same song in different formats. This is caused by the algorithms applied in audio compression formats. The DR Value of the same songs with different sample frequency may vary very slightly too. This is caused by the interleaved sample
over behavior. When you convert a 88.2 kHz file into a 44.1 kHz file usually the peaks will be higher afterwards. For OFFICIAL USE of the DR Values please measure ALWAYS the DESTINATION format which will be released. If you release a CD, please measure the 16 bit / 44.1 kHz PCM file. If you want to label the mp3 release of the same record please measure the mp3 versions.
Installation is pretty easy, just start Foobar2000 and select the following menu options: Library -> Configure. Click on Components in the tree and then on the Install button. Select the foo_dymanic_range.zip file with the file selector. Click on the Ok button and finally on the Restart button.
Please download it for free: Foobar Download
And install your DR Meter application: DR Meter Download
After preparing all, it's time to start correcting your collection of songs and albums, here's how:
Usage
After installation an extra option Dynamic Range Meter will be available in the context menu of a foobar2000 playlist. If you want to run the Dynamic Range Meter you will first have to create a playlist with the audio files you wish to process. If you want to scan an audio CD, select File -> Open Audio CD from the foobar2000. This will create a playlist with all the tracks from the CD. Select the track(s) you wish to scan and right-click with the mouse to bring up the context menu. Selecting Dynamic Range Meter from this menu will start processing and display the results. The results will also be copied to the clipboard suitable for pasting in any text editor.
Note that if you have selected multiple tracks the DR value will be computed differently depending
on the maximum peak difference of the tracks. If the maximum peak difference between tracks is
less than 0.3 dB then the DR value is computed with all tracks processed as a single file (Album Mode).
Otherwise the DR value is computed as the rounded value of the average of all single tracks (Song Mode).
The result will look like the following illustration:
Please use DR-meter application and do not forget to participate in the organization Pleasurize Music Foundation and the return of dynamic music.
