package tracker import ( "math" ) // Volume represents an average and peak volume measurement, in decibels. 0 dB = // signal level of +-1. type Volume struct { Average [2]float32 Peak [2]float32 } // VuAnalyzer receives stereo from the bc channel and converts these into peak & // average volume measurements, and pushes Volume values into the vc channel. // The pushes are nonblocking so if e.g. a GUI does not have enough time to // process redraw the volume meter, the values is just skipped. Thus, the vc // chan should have a capacity of at least 1 (!). // // Internally, it first converts the signal to decibels (0 dB = +-1). Then, the // average volume level is computed by smoothing the decibel values with a // exponentially decaying average, with a time constant tau (in seconds). // Typical value could be 0.3 (seconds). // // Peak volume detection is similar exponential smoothing, but the time // constants for attack and release are different. Generally attack << release. // Typical values could be attack 1.5e-3 and release 1.5 (seconds) // // minVolume is just a hard limit for the vuanalyzer volumes, in decibels, just to // prevent negative infinities for volumes func VuAnalyzer(tau float64, attack float64, release float64, minVolume float32, bc <-chan []float32, vc chan<- Volume) { v := Volume{Average: [2]float32{minVolume, minVolume}, Peak: [2]float32{minVolume, minVolume}} alpha := 1 - float32(math.Exp(-1.0/(tau*44100))) // from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_smoothing alphaAttack := 1 - float32(math.Exp(-1.0/(attack*44100))) alphaRelease := 1 - float32(math.Exp(-1.0/(release*44100))) for buffer := range bc { for j := 0; j < 2; j++ { for i := 0; i < len(buffer); i += 2 { sample2 := float64(buffer[i+j] * buffer[i+j]) if math.IsNaN(sample2) { sample2 = float64(minVolume) } dB := float32(10 * math.Log10(float64(sample2))) if dB < minVolume { dB = minVolume } v.Average[j] += (dB - v.Average[j]) * alpha alphaPeak := alphaAttack if dB < v.Peak[j] { alphaPeak = alphaRelease } v.Peak[j] += (dB - v.Peak[j]) * alphaPeak } } select { case vc <- v: default: } } }