Applying software volume to S16 samples means several bits of
precision are lost; at 25% volume, two bits are lost.  Additionally,
dithering adds some noise.

The problem gets worse when you apply the software volume code twice:
for the software mixer volume, and again for the replay gain.  This
loses some more precision and adds even more dithering noise, which
can become audible (see
https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/issues/542).

By converting everything to 24 bit, we need to shift only two bits to
the right instead of ten, losing nearly no precision, and dithering is
not needed.  Even if the output device is unable to play S24 directly,
we can convert back to S16 with only one stage of dithering.

Closes https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/issues/542

Prepare for a new mode which may convert to a different sample format
when applying volume, to reduce dithering.

Since we switched from autotools to Meson in commit
94592c14, we don't need to include
`config.h` early to properly enable large file support.  Meson passes
the required macros on the compiler command line instead of defining
them in `config.h`.

This means we can include `config.h` at any time, whenever we want to
check its macros, and there are no ordering constraints.

Thsi filter doesn't make sense as manually configured plugin, because
nobody ever calls volume_filter_set() on it, making it a no-op.

Circumvent filter_new() with a fake ConfigBlock.

For easier state management inside filter plugins.

The old struct config_param remains only for top-level string options.

API simplification.  We can now avoid abusing a "size_t*" as
additional return value.

Prepare for adding state.

Use only ConfigData.hxx in plugin sources to reduce header
dependencies.

Replaces GLib's GError.