Chapter 4. Browsing and playing
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4.3.2. Peak Meter
The peak meter can be displayed on the While Playing Screen and consists of several
indicators.
For a picture of the peak meter, please see the While Recording Screen in
section
(page
The bar:
This is the wide horizontal bar. It represents the current volume value.
The peak indicator:
This is a little vertical line at the right end of the bar. It indicates
the peak volume value that occurred recently.
The clip indicator:
This is a little black block that is displayed at the very right of the
scale when an overflow occurs. It usually does not show up during normal playback
unless you play an audio file that is distorted heavily.
If you encounter clipping
while recording, your recording will sound distorted. You should lower the gain.
Note:
Note that the clip detection is not very precise.
Clipping might occur
b
without being indicated.
The scale:
Between the indicators of the right and left channel there are little dots.
These dots represent important volume values. In linear mode each dot is a 10%
mark. In dBFS mode the dots represent the following values (from right to left):
0 dB, -3 dB, -6 dB, -9 dB, -12 dB, -18 dB, -24 dB, -30 dB, -40 dB, -50 dB, -60 dB.
4.3.3. The WPS Context Menu
Like the context menu for the
File Browser
, the
WPS Context Menu
allows you
quick access to some often used functions.
Playlist
The
Playlist
submenu allows you to view, save, search and reshuffle the current playlist.
These and other operations are detailed in section
(page
). To change settings for
the
Playlist Viewer
press Long
Select
while viewing the current playlist to bring
up the
Playlist Viewer Menu
. In this menu, you can find the
Playlist Viewer
Settings
.
Playlist Viewer Settings
Show Icons.
This toggles display of the icon for the currently selected playlist entry and
the icon for moving a playlist entry
Show Indices.
This toggles display of the line numbering for the playlist
Track Display.
This toggles between filename only and full path for playlist entries
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