EBUR128(1)

💖 EBUR128 💖

okay bestie, so this is the ebur128 manual page — it lives in the General Commands Manual section, and it's literally here to tell you everything about measuring loudness on audio files. no cap, this is the loudness girlie of the Unix world. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ebur128 — a command line app measuring loudness on audio files. 🎧

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ebur128 [options][file]

like. that's it. options, then a file, slay. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This manual page documents briefly the ebur128. 🫶

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. (not me having to hand-write the whole lore 😭 iconic of Debian tho)

ebur128 is a command line app measuring loudness on audio files. This application allows you to measure Momentary, Short term and Integrated loudness besides other values. ✨

• Integrated loudness (from start to stop)
• Loudness range
• Integrated threshold
• Range threshold
• Range min
• Range max
• Momentary max (400 ms)
• Short term max (3s)

ebur128 is primarily aimed for broadcasting, but can be useful in other situations too. lowkey it's giving main character energy for radio and TV people, but she's flexible, she can vibe check your audio in any context. 🌈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --help — Display short info. it's the "girl, just tell me what to do" button. 🫶
• --lufs — Use absolute units. no relative nonsense here, we're going absolute bestie. 📏
• --prob — Write cumulative probability file. she's making you a whole extra file with the math in it. 🍓
• --full — For all info to be printed. every single little number, all of it, no crumbs withheld. 💖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

ebur128 was written by Fons Adriaensen <fons@linuxaudio.org>. ✨

This manual page was written by Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes@seznam.cz>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 🎀

💀 no cap: this whole page is the Debian special because the original program was out here with no manpage at all. we fixed that. you're welcome. 💅

anyway bestie that's the whole page — Sep 27, 2012, from the EBUR128(1) archives of the General Commands Manual, brought to you with love from the Debian project. go measure some loudness, you absolute legend. 🌟💖🦋