how do you deal with mame audio volume differences?

[ARTIFACT]

games seem to all have different volume loudness

does mame have some kind of volume normalizer or similar feature?
maybe even at the OS level ...


what do you do?

[ARTIFACT]

I found this ~2 years old thread...

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=41938.0

Any ideas about dealing with this?

[headkaze]

Two things you can do..

1. Get Mame32FX which has volume normalization
2. Get my utility called "Command Line Volume" from here

My program is a little hard to understand, but what it does is you run it before a game using the usual launch before and after features that most FE's have. When in the game you adjust the volume to the way you want. When you exit the volume will be saved so next time you run it the volume will be the same. Unfortunately it doesn't work on a percentage of volume, so it will be the exact same volume not relative to the current volume. I've been meaning to change it to work relatively though.

[ARTIFACT]

interesting thanks for posting!

i run my own compile of mame though - this fx release is a flavor of mame32 correct?

are those 2 advices 'steps'?  or can i just do #2 (your command line app)?

thanks again

[headkaze]

interesting thanks for posting!

i run my own compile of mame though - this fx release is a flavor of mame32 correct?

are those 2 advices 'steps'?  or can i just do #2 (your command line app)?

thanks again

Just #2 is fine.

[ARTIFACT]

ok!

is there any chance you could tell me what command line / tricks i need to do in MaLa?

i would set volume thru the mame menu (TAB) right ?

it would make a useful page for the mala wiki imho ...

thanks...

[headkaze]

ok!

is there any chance you could tell me what command line / tricks i need to do in MaLa?

i would set volume thru the mame menu (TAB) right ?

it would make a useful page for the mala wiki imho ...

thanks...

It would work something like this for Mala:

Launch Before Command Line: volume.exe -read -file %rom%.vol
Launch After Command Line: volume.exe -write -file %rom%.vol

[loadman]

It would make a useful page for the mala wiki imho ...

Go for it..  I encourage all to contribute. 

Just use your forum login and password 

[csa3d]

This is awesome!  Can't wait to give that a go.  No more 500 decible Zinc issues!

Headkaze:  Any way you'd wanna compile this as a permanent Mala plug-in?

-csa

[headkaze]

This is awesome!  Can't wait to give that a go.  No more 500 decible Zinc issues!

Headkaze:  Any way you'd wanna compile this as a permanent Mala plug-in?

-csa

There is actually more chance of me building this sort of thing into CPWizard. I don't use Mala as my FE I'm afraid so for now this is about all you got. If loadman wants to create a plugin for Mala I'm happy to help him.

[ARTIFACT]

awesome stuff....

maybe let the MALA author know?

[headkaze]

awesome stuff....

maybe let the MALA author know?

Yeah go ahead, Swindus is a nice bloke, he might integrate a feature like that into Mala.

[ARTIFACT]

OK I dont know him personally but I will send him a PM with a link to this thread

Thanks!

[ARTIFACT]

PM sent!

I suggested that this command gets implemented as a checkbox + browse for .exe option in the MaLa options dialog

that'd be convenient! I hope he looks into it

thank you

[retrometro]

This is awesome!  Can't wait to give that a go.  No more 500 decible Zinc issues!

Headkaze:  Any way you'd wanna compile this as a permanent Mala plug-in?

-csa

what does the mala plug-in do?

[ARTIFACT]

This is awesome!  Can't wait to give that a go.  No more 500 decible Zinc issues!

Headkaze:  Any way you'd wanna compile this as a permanent Mala plug-in?

-csa

what does the mala plug-in do?

There is no mala plugin... I sent a PM to Swindus (who created Mala) to ask if headkake's command line volume app could be available thru a convenient option in Mala . .. and csa3d asked headkaze if he could make this a mala "plug-in" instead of a standalone command line tool.

I think I summarized/clarified