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[cliveb]

First time I laid my hands on a Sonos product was at a HiFi show in 2006 (I went there to checkout and order a Transporter).
My immediate reaction (apart from the feeling that their remote was WAY too big) was that Sonos would appeal to the sort of people who bought B&O - they just wanted...

[cliveb]

SB players were always a niche product that would never become mainstream (which is precisely why Logitech were absolutely the wrong company to buy Slim Devices).

Nowadays the mass of potential buyers wouldn't have a clue about why the LMS ecosystem is better than the plethora of alternatives...

[cliveb]

I've never used the -v option, but the man page says it's a "linear" adjustment. Which suggests to me that -v 0.98 sets the volume to 98%. And of course that's a very small decrease (about 0.17dB) and won't deal with any induced clipping.

Edit: come to think of it, shouldn't a...

[cliveb]

I can't help you with detecting pre-existing compression, but have one other comment.
Rather than dynamic range compression, you could perhaps consider some form of gain riding instead.
Foobar2000 has a DSP component called VLevel that will do this for you, and it's what I use when preparing...