The [Peak Level] field is great and everyone should take a moment to look their library over based on it. If I understand it correctly, it reveals the maximum volume in a song. Hip, contemporary music will often hit 99%! Older, classical, and more dynamic music might only peak at 90%.
Now I have participated in discussions on dynamic range and pointed out that I still think songs should peak at 100% (or close to) but should not be manually limited once a peak is met and should also AVERAGE much lower. If your song peaks at 80% but averages 78%, that seems like horrible range! I think an ideal song would max at 99%, average 80% and that means hitting 60% (most likely). Dynamic range discussions are always interesting because it's our chance to assess musical engineering of the day...
Now my question: in the DSP studio there is a live max percentage that updates throughout the song. I would like to add this to MC somewhere. If I add [Peak Level] to the upper display area, it is only the entire song peak level (makes sense). Is there a way to pick up the live peak level as MC calculates it? The graphic level meters (left & right) can imply loud or quiet but are difficult to read considering the total volume over all.
YAMCR
Yet Another Media Center Request
