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+Make audio normalization optional
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+Added 'normalize' argument to `IPython.display.Audio`. This argument applies
+when audio data is given as an array of samples. The default of `normalize=True`
+preserves prior behavior of normalizing the audio to the maximum possible range.
+Setting to `False` disables normalization.
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