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In article ,
says...

Chevdo wrote:

[quoting me]

Audition does a good job of getting things to the same
average loudness and offers two definitions thereof.

Well, the 'average loudness' would be obtained by averaging
mathematically according to the RMS. 'Relative loudness'
refers to a psycho-acoustical average (bass frequencies sound
'louder' than treble frequencies to humans), so in order to make
all files the same 'relative loudness', a psycho-acoustical
model of human hearing would need to be employed.

The second of the above two definitions is psycho-acoustally
compensated, imo and for the music I "level" with it linear averages
work best, because there is no way of knowing the playback level in
sones in advance, but if you want it it is there.

Good point, you could normalize to a constant sone level and that would be a
psycho-acoustical model to achieve a form of 'relative loudness'. Do you know
of any plugins that normalize to sone settings?

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