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How to Create an Enterprise UI Toolkit
User interface toolkits are helpful for ensuring consistent quality in your web software products and encouraging rapid prototyping in agile software environments.
The benefits of a UI toolkit are numerous, and they are created in a number of different ways, but there are no ultimate rules stating what they should include, which can be somewhat confusing.
Over the past few years I have worked at two different fortune 500 companies and we have created various versions of UI toolkits for online software products. (The most recent toolkit was a mini-application built in the same code base as the primary application, and it has proven to be invaluable.)
An enterprise UI toolkit can't be as simple as just leveraging Twitter Bootstrap and calling it a day, because there are many more factors to consider for large software products than there may be for other types of applications. I'd like to give you insight on the types of toolkits that my teams and I have created in the hope that you can reference them for your own team.
What are They, Really?
An enterprise UI toolkit is essentially a mini-application that serves as a living library of the patterns, visual standards, and interaction behaviors as well as the framework and code samples for the actual front end of the user interface. My team is taking it one step further right now and working with the developers to extend eusable code beyond just the HTML and CSS.
This brings the team a bit closer together than using dispersed libraries of code and wikis of information. The toolkit does not house all of our work, such as wireframes and prototypes, user journeys, personas, user research, and other documentation, which we keep that on the company's server.
The most common UI Toolkits freely available today vary from being focused on a framework of code—as with Twitter Bootstrap or ZURB Foundation—to a pattern library. My teams combine all of these goodies into one enterprise UI toolkit customized for our company's needs. This gives us the ability to rapidly prototype and consistently implement the intended design of an application.
The biggest benefits of the enterprise UI toolkit are:
- Allows for shared understanding of design and front end development best practices
- Allows re-use of assets in the application
- Allows the designers and developers to standardize a consistent set of patterns throughout the application
- Allows for sketchy wireframes to serve as final deliverables in many cases
- Allows you to move away from repetitive specification documentation by just referencing your patterns
- Supports the growth of the product over time
How They're Built
Just like you do with your products, the first thing to define when creating a UI toolkit is your audience. This has caused quite a bit of circular conversation for my teams in the past. In order to work in agile development, you have to have shared understanding across the whole team, so the audience must rightfully be the entire team: designers, developers, QA, and product owners.
The first thing to define when creating a UI toolkit is your audience
Keeping this in mind, your different personas will have differing needs of the toolkit. Designers will mostly reference the interaction and visual patterns, developers will be most interested in code samples, and product owners and QA will want to understand the whole picture so that they can ensure the product is being built as intended. I've been working with remotely disbursed teams from the U.S. and around the world—not in-person only. The toolkit still holds value and is even more useful as a communication tool for remote teams.
During my initial research, I referenced examples such as the Fireworks/Evernote library, Patternry, and various other online options. I also created one on WordPress using very little programming code and a few plugins for the form submission and viewing. The creation of the toolkit can be done in-house or externally, depending on your company's needs, budget, and time constraints.
Chances are if you are in a large company, you will want to build something internally and perhaps even leverage it across different products. If you decide to design one yourself, be careful to start lean, just as you might for your products. Part of the reason that UI toolkits can be troublesome to create is because, as designers, we can find ourselves striving for perfection.
Treat it like a product and add to it as you go, incorporating feedback from the users and letting developers or other team members know when something is ready for use as it gets released.
How to Create Your Own Internal Enterprise UI Toolkit App
Here are some tips for building a successful enterprise UI toolkit that I've picked up working with my teams:
- Design a very basic layout with a simple taxonomy for grouping your patterns on the left hand side of the page and a list of your actual patterns on the right in grid or image display.
- Be clear on the naming convention for your patterns right away. This is what you reference in your specifications in all of your wireframe or prototype work so you don't want to change them in the future. (We kept the standard Bootstrap layout at first for our header and added basic admin functions to that menu.)
- Leverage your existing styles/layouts or Twitter Bootstrap/ZURB Foundation to jumpstart the code base.
- Create very basic roles for administration of the site and viewing or editing. We created two states for the patterns: draft and published. Non-admins only view the published patterns.
- Have a form for creating patterns that includes, at minimum, the name, the category, and image(s), as well as information on when to use, how to use, CSS (or SASS, LESS etc), and HTML examples displayed with HighlightJS or similar. We also provide a link to working example code. All of this information turns into the individual pattern page. Your users can then view the full list of patterns or drill down for details and code examples.
- Pushed the SASS and any visual assets directly to the development team's source code, so they didn't need to go find it. We continue to improve communication on best practices being followed within the SASS as comments on the toolkit.
- Add the ability to show dates of recent updates, recent changes, or archived patterns that have been replaced with new ones.
- Add the option to link related patterns since some patterns such as form controls are often contained within parent patterns.
- Style the UI toolkit the same way that you would style the real application, to re-enforce working examples of your standards.
- If you have more than 20 patterns, make sure they are searchable.
- We've added the option for HTML only pages so that we can list, for example, the SASS names for the base colors and examples of them.
- Consider making the toolkit interactive and add video recordings of how to use the patterns for remotely dispersed teams.
Ideally, you can build your UI toolkit using the same technology and code repository for assets as you would for your application. If there are barriers to doing this, get it as close as possible to ensure that you can at least easily transport your CSS to the development teams.
I've worked with companies that are afraid to create and maintain this type of interface, especially when it comes to the front-end code. A common question is: "What happens when you re-do the design?" Our answer is that you revisit the toolkit and either make minor adjustments or entirely re-vamp it to be updated with your current design paradigms. You can also separate and archive your old toolkit if you are supporting older versions of your application and still need to have it as a reference.
Variations of the UI toolkit I've outlined are already common at Microsoft, Apple, Google, and other companies that depend on developer APIs to expand their platforms. When the toolkits become irrelevant, team members stop using them and they get replaced with a newer version.
You could argue that this is too much documentation for purist agile and lean thinking. If you are on a smaller team or can communicate your design to one person doing all the work, you won't need this level of documentation. However, if you're running a bigger program with lots of hands in the pot, the toolkit becomes a living and useful tool worthy of its creation and maintenance.
My teams have had great success with enterprise UI toolkits, but their adoption relies on the entire team, not just the design folks. Evangelizing the toolkit and integrating it into your workflow are an important part of the process. If you do it right, this can be a huge asset to your company and your web software products.
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what's with all the thumbs down on all the comments? you guys having problems with bots? personally I think I'm going to jump into bootstrap.. I only know HTML/CSS and a bit of PHP.. and it seems easy enough for me to build out a really nice UI. Chrischayes.ca
Check out Tapestry - A free app (MIT license) that gives you an interface to store and manage your front-end patterns. We created the app to make it easy for both agencies and internal teams to manage UI patterns.
I generally call these Live Style Guides, since they're not only useful for enterprise environments. Also as per my definition, they may extend in either direction (containing static guides like redlines as well as back end code) but always at least contain some "live" mixture of working visual examples and code samples, tied to the code base.
GE Design is another large company that's building & using their own corporate UI framework. This is high on my list for my next job.
UI toolkits or patterns, or standards. They go by many names. Useful till they are done correctly. With appropriate guidelines to use. And validated with enough user testing in the context of real products
Hi and thanks for the great article. At our company, we've created our own UI toolkit very similar to how you've described. We're now considering leveraging Twitter's Bootstrap instead to cut down on documentation and maintenance, and to have a common and familiar UI language for new folks joining our company as well as for people that customize on top of our product.
Do you have any experience or anecdotes on how to work in tandem with existing frameworks? Is it a "fork and keep separate" strategy or can you keep your own toolkit Bootstrap-compatible, for example, while building your own patterns on top of it? Thanks.
Hi great question - Either way works. Our current project leverages bootstrap but b/c we did custom SASS we made it our own and won't upgrade - it is much cleaner code this way also and decreases download times client side. We also leverage kendo ui and for that are commited to keeping it upgrade compatible - but that has its pros and cons. So, I think it depends on which 3rd party tools you use.
Hi Ariel,
you may consider correcting your website link on your description. Removing the double quotes will do the work... :-)
Nice post by the way.
Do you think that a tool would help to create and use such a toolkit?
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Hi Grace what are the enterprise Ui toolkit available. I have scene a problem in maintaining own toolkit for organise. A company I worked for use to maintain it's own MVC. FRAMEWORK, but its has to allocate several resources, later they abandoned internal framework and started developing on an open source framework which did freed few resources resulted in more enterprise applications. I agree with u that no framework is perfect and enterprise need to have consistency in UX, what's your opinion about dojo?
Maintenance is definitely part of the commitment to starting one of these. This is really geared at the front-end UI patterns more than the framework of the application. That being said, you could potentially house pattern and references that the development team would usually keep on their wiki or other areas for documentation.


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I wonder how the results would be if this was "Phoronix: Ubuntu 7.10 + WINE vs. Windows Vista".
@Trek1701: I wonder that, too.
And I wonder how would the tests come with Wine 0.9.47 on Ubuntu 7.10 with Compiz-Fussion disabled and some no needed CPU and RAM eating processes killed (Ubuntu starts some not needed in most cases services on boot like bluetooth and tablet PC touchscreen config in xorg.conf - I don't remember which services besides that I've disabled just after first boot).
It would be great if the tests would cover games which have native Linux clients to compare performance between native games and Windows binaries under Wine like Quake 3 & 4, Doom 3, ET: Quake Wars, Unreal 2, UT 2004, etc.
The last thing - I'd like to see those tests compared with ATI/AMD cards on 8.42 driver, too.
well, i have the feeling, GLSL was disabled during the benchmark?, because it can give a big performance gain
I haven't done any extensive benchmarks or anything, but I found wine 0.9.46 to be a particularly bad version for DirectX performance when playing Command and Conquer Tiberium Wars. It was so bad that it was nearly unplayable where previously it ran very well. While 0.9.47 seems to have restored most of the lost performance from .46, I find that versions of wine <= 0.9.43 for now have the best DirectX performance, at least for that particular game. This is using an NVidia 7800GTX. I can't help but wonder why they picked that particular version. Perhaps it was simply the highest revision available at the time they locked down their packages.
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Personally, I'm having serious problems these days getting anything 3D to run with Wine. No problem with Linux native OpenGL apps, however.
I'm using a 8600GTS with the proprietary nvidia driver. Any special driver setting I should be aware of ?
My experience in Wine has been generally good. However I haven't been able to test Wine with decent video performance due to ATI driver issues. But on my Geforce FX 5500 everything that had a gold rating on the Wineapp database ran decent. Especially if it was a opengl game. I tend to remember Deus Ex ran flawless in opengl mode in Wine for example.
What kind of apps/games are you trying to run?
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Madam Poppy Pomfrey (fl. 1954 - 1998[6]) was the matron and nurse at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.[4] She employed Nurse Wainscott to assist her in the hospital wing sometime between 1996 and 1998.[2]
1971-1978 school years
Madam Pomfrey began her career at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry sometime prior to 1971, being trusted in that year by Headmaster Albus Dumbledore to escort new Gryffindor student Remus Lupin, who was infected with lycanthropy due to a bite from Fenrir Greyback, to the Whomping Willow every full moon.[7]
Prior to 1981
At some point before 1 November, 1981, Madam Pomfrey complimented Dumbledore on a set of earmuffs he had recently acquired.[8] The compliment made him blush in such a manner that would only be rivalled when Professor McGonagall compared his magical prowess satisfactorily against Voldemort's.[8]
1991–1992 school year
- Harry: "You let Professor Dumbledore in..."
- Pomfrey: "Well, of course, that was the Headmaster, quite different. You need rest."
- Harry: "I am resting, look, lying down and everything. Oh, go on Madam Pomfrey..."
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In 1991 after visiting Rubeus Hagrid, Ron Weasley was required to go to Madam Pomfrey after being bitten by the dragon Norberta. Ron told her that he had been bitten by a dog, but Madam Pomfrey had doubts about it due to the unusual colour of the purple, green, and black wound, but in the end she dropped the subject and continued to treat him after Ron insisted it was a dog.
Later on in the year, after Harry Potter fought Professor Quirrell in the Hogwarts dungeons over the Philosopher's Stone, he spent three days unconscious in the hospital wing under Madam Pomfrey's care. She was reluctant for Harry to have any visitors, even Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger as she thought that all Harry needed was bed rest but she allowed headmaster Albus Dumbledore to visit Harry time to time.
1992–1993 school year
In 1992, Madam Pomfrey administered Skele-gro on Harry to regrow his bones in the arm after Gilderoy Lockhart's attempt to fix a broken bone failed disastrously. Pomfrey was annoyed that Harry had not been bought straight to her in the first place as re-growing bones is a more difficult task than mending bones, which she claims she can do "in a heartbeat".
In the same year, Hermione Granger ended up in the hospital wing for a month after an accident in an unauthorised high-level potion-making (Polyjuice Potion) left her half-feline; apparently the group felt comfortable letting Madam Pomfrey to treat her since she would not ask too many questions and just get on with the job in hand. Hermione was allowed visitors, but it bothered Madam Pomfrey somewhat.
Also in the 1992–1993 school year Hogwarts was facing potential closure as a monster had been attacking Muggle-born students around the school. It was Madam Pomfrey's job to make sure that these students were found and treated to the best of her ability, though for those petrified she could not treat students without Pomona Sprout's Mandrake potion. She also refused to allow any students to visit the victims, in fear of the attacker might return to finish them, but allowed Harry and Ron to visit Hermione with Professor McGonagall's permission. Eventually, they managed to get the potion made and cured Hermione Granger, Colin Creevey, Penelope Clearwater, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Nearly Headless Nick, and Mrs. Norris. At the end of the year, Madam Pomfrey and Professor Sprout sat at the staff table and Albus Dumbledore asked the whole school to thank them both for their efforts in helping all petrified students, as well as applauding in Lockhart's departure.
1993–1994 school year
At the end of 1994 Harry, Ron, and Hermione all had endured injuries following the events that took place when Sirius Black returned to Hogwarts and revealed Peter Pettigrew to be alive. The three all woke up in the hospital wing after Ron broke his leg the previous evening, and both Harry and Hermione had passed out from the Dementor attack along with Sirius Black. Madam Pomfrey was not surprised to have the three in her care again. Whilst in the Hospital Wing, Hermione, at Dumbledore's hint, used her Time-Turner to go back in time with Harry to three hours before. They rescued Sirius Black on Buckbeak the hippogriff to prevent him from being administered the fatal Dementor's Kiss. They managed to get back in time without Madam Pomfrey realising what they had done. Madam Pomfrey also spoke approvingly of Remus Lupin's use of chocolate to relieve the effects of a Dementor's presence on students, commenting that Hogwarts has "finally got a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher who knows his remedies".
1994–1995 school year
- "Last year dementors, this year dragons, what are they going to bring into this school next?"
- —Madam Pomfrey complains about the Triwizard Tournament[src]
When several students, including Fred and George Weasley, S. Fawcett and Summers "decided to age themselves up a little" in order to be eligible to enter the 1994 Triwizard Tournament, Madam Pomfrey had to remove the beards which they had grown in attempting to cross Dumbledore's Age Line. She was most annoyed by the students actions and treated them with regret. She felt that the Triwizard Tournament would bring the school nothing but grief.
During the same school year, it was Madam Pomfrey's job to tend to the injuries that the four Triwizard Champions, Harry Potter, Viktor Krum, Fleur Delacour and Cedric Diggory received during the course of the tournament, and expressed distaste for the dragons for the first task.
She was also responsible to take the body of Cedric Diggory to the Hospital Wing after he had been killed by Peter Pettigrew under the order of Lord Voldemort during the last task. Later, after being questioned by Albus Dumbledore on the details of the incident, Harry Potter was sent to the hospital where Madam Pomfrey prescribed a Dreamless Sleep Potion for him, in order to get ample rest.
1995–1996 school year
- "I don't wonder you're shocked, Potter, as if one of them could have stunned Minerva McGonagall face-on by daylight! Cowardice, that's what it was... despicable cowardice... if I wasn't worried what would happen to you students without me, I'd resign in protest!"
- —Madam Pomfrey to Harry Potter on her intention to resign[src]
In 1996, Hogwarts was under the control of the Ministry. Albus Dumbledore had escaped after facing potential imprisonment in Azkaban and Dolores Umbridge had taken over. Minerva McGonagall, Madam Pomfrey's close friend was hit by four Stunning Spells to the chest by Aurors while Umbridge was trying to sack and remove Hagrid from Hogwarts. Madam Pomfrey was deeply shocked by this attack and was unable to help Minerva. She transferred her to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries where she could receive better treatment by qualified healers. Also, after the Dumbledore's Army's traitor, Marietta Edgecombe, was struck with Hermione Granger's jinx, Madam Pomfrey could not do the slightest in improving the pustules instilled on Marietta's face.
Madam Pomfrey considered resigning in protest after the attack, but did not as she cared for the students too much. She subsequently helped treat the assorted injuries that Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom, Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley and Harry Potter sustained during the battle in the Department of Mysteries, including a broken ankle, broken nose, and the effects of an unknown curse on Hermione, which if conjured verbally could have been fatal.
1996–1997 school year
In 1997, Madam Pomfrey examined Katie Bell after she had been cursed by an Opal necklace. She could not help Bell and transferred her to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries for a specialist's opinion. Later in the year, Hogwarts fell under attack from the Death Eaters.[9] Several students and Aurors were caught up in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower, a battle which resulted in the death of headmaster Albus Dumbledore.[9] Madam Pomfrey tended to the wounds and injuries of those in the battle; Bill Weasley was injured the worst of all, as werewolf Fenrir Greyback had savaged and bit him whilst in his human form, causing Bill to be badly scarred.[9]
Madam Pomfrey noted that there is no cure for werewolf bites and scars.[9] Lupin, being a werewolf himself, assumed that Bill would not take the form of a true werewolf since he might not be entirely infected with Lycanthropy, though he could develop lupine qualities.[9] Since it was an unique case, neither Madam Pomfrey nor the others knew what would become of Bill when he awoke.[9] When he woke up, all that happened to Bill developed a liking for raw meat.[9]
Shortly afterwards, Madam Pomfrey attended the Funeral of Albus Dumbledore to pay her respects to her lost colleague and friend.
Battle of Hogwarts
Following the death of former headmaster Albus Dumbledore, Lord Voldemort had taken control of Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic. He had appointed Severus Snape as Headmaster. Detentions and punishments imposed on students were severe under the cruel Death Eaters Amycus and Alecto Carrow as teachers. Students were noted to be in and out of the Hospital Wing often. In particular, Seamus Finnigan's face was unrecognisable with bruises.
Later on in the year, Harry, Ron and Hermione returned to Hogwarts in search of the final Horcrux in Hogwarts, triggering a battle. The staff and students defended the school against Voldemort and his Death Eater army bravely whilst Harry searched for the Horcrux. At the end of the Battle of Hogwarts, students and staff alike were injured, or even killed. After the battle Madam Pomfrey would tend to all the injured and dead.
Personality and traits
Madam Pomfrey was described by her students as being exceptionally kind, but even more so strict.[4] She was very obsessive, lining up the sweet boxes belonging to her patients in neat rows, and was intensely worried about all of the students under her care, believing even feasts to be risky.[4] Indeed, she never asked questions about how her patients received their ailments or questioning the sometimes ludicrous stories they told her, but instead immediately set to fixing them up.[10]
Magical abilities and skills
- Healing magic: Madam Pomfrey had a very high understanding of medical charms and could mend broken bones in less than sixty seconds.[3]
- Transfiguration: She was also at least reasonably adept at Transfiguration, being able to quickly and wordlessly conjure a chair for Professor McGonagall to sit on after hearing of the death of Albus Dumbledore.[9]
- Defence Against the Dark Arts: Pomfrey was able to create a non-corporeal Patronus, a feat that is noted to be difficult.[5] She is also a skilled enough duellist to survive the Battle of Hogwarts, defeating at least one witch and surviving the onslaught of thousands more.[2] She also recognised a Dementor attack and knew immediately to prescribe chocolate, expressing grim approval of Professor Lupin when she learned that he had already treated the student.[11]
- Poppy juice was used as a pain reliever in Medieval times; opium is also made of poppy sap.
- Pomfrey sounds like comfrey, a plant in the borage family which can be made into a soothing salve. Meanings of her names are, therefore, both in some way medically related. Pomfrey cakes are small, sweet lozenges made from the roots of the licorice plant. Licorice also has been a medicinal ingredient for hundreds of years.
Behind the scenes
- Pomfrey is portrayed by British actress Gemma Jones in the film adaptations of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
- In the film adaptations, Madam Pomfrey wears a cloth in her hair similar to caps worn by British Nurses at various points in history. Her uniform costume as seen in the second film is very similar and could be based on Victorian and Edwardian nurse's uniforms. Her uniform that we see in the sixth film and 8th is very similar and could be based on very early NHS nurse's uniforms from the 1940's and 50's.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (Mentioned as "Nurse")
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) (Mentioned as "Nurse")
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Harry Potter Trading Card Game
- Pottermore
Notes and references
- ↑ As Madame Pomfrey was already working at Hogwarts in 1971, having led Lupin to the Whomping Willow to transform, she must have been at least seventeen years old to be working there.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Chapter 9 (The Midnight Duel)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Chapter 17 (The Man with Two Faces)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- ↑ These are the years she is known to have been active. She was certainly born before then and definitely did not die in that time.
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Chapter 18 (Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Chapter 1 (The Boy Who Lived)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Chapter 29 (The Phoenix Lament)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Chapter 14 (Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Chapter 5 (The Dementor)


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To those complaining about compile times: Tinderbox and the GRP.
There are binary tarball repositories made from the tree by various people, many off whom are happy to make the binaries available. Indeed, these are quite commonly used when rescuing a system which some (normally new, but not always) user has managed to break by removing something critical.
The big thing about gentoo is the package manager (any of the three qualify). It makes keeping stuff working nicely easy, and is one of the most robust to rapidly changing packages installed when coupled with one of the maintenance tools. (Actually, the version of the package manager in the unstable tree doesn't even need the tool.)
For me, my use of gentoo is based on the fact that I found it ridiculously easy to break RPM, and when I started Ubuntu wasn't really on the scene, and we were still waiting for the Flying Pigs with Debian.


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Jul 30 2004, 15:46
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Replaygain and MP3Gain
I was confused about the differences between Replaygain and MP3Gain, so wrote this note explaining the difference. I hope this is the correct forum, please move it if it would be better somewhere else. I realise that the FAQ has a section "Replaygain: WaveGain vs. MP3Gain" but that doesn't obviously cover the features I describe below. I illustrate the difference by describing adjustment of playback volume using MP3Gain and Foobar2000 (a Replaygain-aware MP3 player). I'm assuming the reader is familiar with the priciples behind Replaygain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - An MP3 file is composed of many blocks of audio, one after the other. Each block corresponds to a few milliseconds of music. Each block has a global gain field which tells an MP3 file player how loud to play that block. In addition to these global gain fields, each MP3 file can also have a Replaygain header which applies to the whole file, and which tells a Replaygain-aware MP3 player how loud to play that file. MP3Gain determines the Replaygain values for the MP3 file. MP3Gain then writes to the global gain header of every block, adjusting them all up or down by the same amount in order to achieve those Replaygain values. MP3Gain also writes a Replaygain header which applies to the whole MP3 file. Since MP3Gain has adjusted the global gain field for each block to give the right volume, the volume adjustments in that Replaygain header will be small. This MP3 file will then play at the right volume in all players, whether or not they are Replaygain-aware. Foobar2000 doesn't write to the global gain field of individual blocks. It determines and writes only the Replaygain header which applies to the whole MP3 file. The value it writes to the Replaygain header will therefore be different to that written by MP3Gain since each block is left with it's original global gain field setting. It is potentially easy to screw this up. For example, let's say we have a file which is VERY LOUD. We use Foobar2000 to adjust the Replaygain header, which of course writes a value which tells a Replaygain-aware player to turn everything down a lot. Now suppose we use MP3Gain to adjust the playback volume. And suppose that this time MP3Gain is set to IGNORE tags in the file (i.e. "Options" > "Tags" > "Ignore (do not read or write tags)" is checked). It will still adjust the global gain field of each block (and turn them all down), but it will ignore the Replaygain header, i.e. leave it at the setting which Foobar2000 used. If we then play our MP3 file in a player which is NOT Replaygain-aware, everything will be fine - the MP3 file will play at the right volume because the global gain field for each individual block has been turned down. BUT what happens if we then play the MP3 file in an Replaygain-aware player? Now the file will be played much too quietly because the global gain field settings for each block have been turned down AND the Replaygain header for the whole MP3 file is still telling the player to turn down the whole file. The safest solution to all this is to make sure that if you use MP3Gain on your files, it is NOT set to ignore tags in the file. Then it won't matter which you use to adjust the Replaygain (Foobar2000 or MP3Gain, in any order) since either will set the value of Replaygain correctly. Edit: Correction. Since I wrote the above paragraph I have got to know foobar2000 better. There are several different types of headers (usually called "tags") which hold information about an MP3 file - two of the most common are ID3 and APE. Most MP3 taggers and CD rippers use ID3 tags to hold artist information. MP3Gain uses APE tags to hold MP3Gain and Replaygain information. Because foobar2000 ignores ID3 tags if it finds an APE tag, it is better NOT to let MP3Gain add tags to MP3 files if you intend to use foobar2000 as your MP3 player. If you do let MP3Gain write tags, you will find that foobar2000 will not display Artist/Album/Track etc correctly unless that information is also in the APE tag. Since most MP3 taggers use the ID3 tags to store that information, it will almost certainly not be displayed. You will lose very little by not letting MP3Gain write tags - each individual block of music has had it's global gain header adjusted so it will always play correctly to within 1.5dB (MP3Gain's accuracy). To set MP3Gain to not write tags to the file make sure "Options" > "Tags" > "Ignore (do not read or write tags)" is NOT checked. MP3Gain can also remove tags which it has previously added. If you want the ReplayGain correction to be exact, you can use foobar2000 to adjust the ReplayGain. foobar2000 can be configured to write ReplayGain values to ID3 tags so any previously-stored Artist/Album/Track information is not lost. The above correction may not apply to players other than foobar2000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Note that the advantage of using MP3Gain is that the global gain header for each block MUST be supported by all MP3 players, hardware or software. The Replaygain header is not supported by all players. This post has been edited by Pootle_1: Aug 23 2004, 20:48 |
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So, consider two WAV files, one processed and one original. One of them I WAVEGAIN it down to -12.00 and the original I leave alone. If I play the one that has been processed with a higher volume (+12.00 from that starting point) will be equally loud identical to the original file? I know MP3Gain does it by 1.5 steps, but foobar2000 does not calculate with that limitation, unless it's not saying it properly.... QUOTE There will be no difference in the overall sound of the track because all frequencies are affected by the same amount of gain change (no equalizing is done). Howewer, if there's a very quiet sound in a certain frequency area, which was hardly audible even on original gain, it may sink under the noise-floor of your playback equipment when lowering the gain. But i guess this is rather a theoretical concern because most music produced today is heavily dnr-compressed, so that there shouldn't be much of a risk this could actually produce audible consequences... Hmm... I sometimes DO NOTICE some kind of ANNOYANCE when I replaygain very clip-pressed albums and play them "as the old good CD back in the 80's". It just doesn't sound the same, and the sound gets really flat. I mean, they sound better loud & left alone.. could it be what you're saying? This post has been edited by Bourne: Feb 12 2008, 19:37 |
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