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> I don’t see people complaining “I hate listening to most music because my headphones are always at 90% volume Volume and loudness are different things (https
by taneq 9mo ago
> I don’t see people complaining “I hate listening to most music because my headphones are always at 90% volume
Volume and loudness are different things (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war) and pervasive loudness is absolutely a thing. Just turning down the volume doesn’t fix dynamic range compression.
- Normal_gaussian 9mo agoWe also apply multiple kinds of normalisation to audio tracks to have them play at the appropriate level for their use case; so that the user doesn't have to adjust the volume when the TV switches from showing a war film, a panel show, a news program, a music channel, and a nature documentary - each is played with appropriate settings pre-baked relative to the others.