PLoudValidator is a software to validate audio files with correct loudness. It can validate various specifications:

• EBU R 128

• ATSC A85

• CST-Ficam RT-017 specification for France.

It can also correct file to EBU R 128. Comming soon for others specifications.

See COPYING.md

• Getting the source

git clone git://github.com/mikrosimage/loudness_validator.git
cd loudness_validator

• Linux compilation

export BOOST_ROOT=path/to/boost
export QTDIR=/usr/lib64/qt4
./build_linux.sh
./build_linux.sh /library /tools /PloudValidator

see ./build_linux.sh --help for more informations

• Windows compilation

set BOOST_ROOT=path/to/boost
set QTDIR="C:\QtSDK\mingw" # with default install
set QTDIR="C:\QtSDK\Desktop\Qt\4.7.4\mingw"
build_windows.bat
build_windows.bat /library /tools /PloudValidator

see ./build_windows.bat --help for more informations

The distribution is done into dist/release/ directory.
You can run GUI with:

./dist/release/bin/PLoudValidator

Or using command line tools, to display help :

./dist/release/bin/loudness-analyser
./dist/release/bin/loudness-corrector

• GCC 4.4.1 on OpenSUSE 11.2
• CLang 3.1 on OpenSUSE 11.2
• GCC 4.5.2 on Windows XP

• Qt 4.5.3
• libsndfile 1.0.24-22.2

Tools from loudnessLibrary directory requires libsndfile.
And PLoudValidator require also Qt4.

libsndfile
Qt4

• EBU R-128
  open link

• ATSC A85
  download pdf

• France CST-Ficam RT-017 specification
  download pdf

• EBU test material
  download zip archive