What is the standard RMS value for music?

[Robert_J_H]

@Black Dog Bluez

@Robert J. H.

There’s an 1-hour version already in the wave-stats topic (one of the last posts).
Overall peak, positive and negative as well are already integrated.
Rms normalization is easy:
If the plug-in shows -27 and you want -20 dB FS, amplify by 7 dB.
You have probably to check “Allow Cliping”.
Use a Limiter to bring the peak back to under zero.

I don’t understand – are you saying there is an ‘up to a 1 hour sample’ RMS analyzer plug-in available? Here, somewhere? Free? I searched “wave-stats” and did not see anything… If there is such a plug-in, a link would be appreciated, thanks.

"Wave Stats" plug-in

I don’t use windowing. That’s actually only needed for real time display, e.g. display update at each second. This means, all samples are summed and averaged. I might go back to windowing when I want to exclude silences as it is e.g. done in the R128 recommendation. However, the difference is not that overwhelming. I’m sure that Steve will soon enable longer durations since Acx/Audible measure 60 s blocks for instance. Until then: wavestats.ny (2.3 KB)

I don’t think that 1/100 dB values make any sense (for the purpose of reading out measurements)
The measurements are rounded off from a 32-bit float number, there’s any precision you like.

The pauses in voice recordings shouldn’t alter the RMS value too much, i.e. push them down.

However, you can first apply “Truncate Silence” to bring the phrases together in a whole block.