Compress dynamic range for podcasts in noisy environment?

[CCCMikey]

G'day

Just considering RockBoxing an iPod video I've acquired.

On my now dead Palm T|X I would deliberately overdrive the preamp with a limiting setting which meant the quiet parts of podcasts would become as loud as the rest of the podcast; making them easier to listen to in the car.

I can't see such a capability in the iPod's firmware, and based on the FAQ it doesn't sound like RockBox has that capability either?

Is there any way to do this with RockBox?

Cheers, Mike.

[Didgeridoohan]

Well... It is not a feature of Rockbox yet, but there has been some kind of effort getting it in there. See this thread: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=18129.0

Can't tell you though how it's coming along, since only whoever is working on it (if anyone) knows that.

[nerdrunner]

I'll add my vote to request dynamic range compression.  I'd rather not have to preprocess my mp3's for this purpose, because sometimes the background noise is low & wider dynamic range is preferred.

Ideally, if the Rockbox unit has a _microphone_, you can _measure_ the external noise & adjust the volume & dynamic range to match it.  (This idea is taken from TV's which can sense the amount of light in the room & automatically adjust their brightness & contrast to match.  There used to be a program for the Palm Treo that used the builtin camera to measure the amount of ambient light & adjusted the brightness & contrast of the Treo display to match.)

[Chronon]

There's already a discussion about this idea as linked by Didgeridoohan. 

Locking this now as the question of whether it is a current feature of Rockbox has been answered and a link to discussion about this idea has been provided.