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Hmm. A more cynical explanation is that they all want to have the loudest CDs in the jukebox. In noisy public environments (pubs, parties, etc.) the volume of w
by marksutherland 18y ago
Hmm. A more cynical explanation is that they all want to have the loudest CDs in the jukebox. In noisy public environments (pubs, parties, etc.) the volume of whatevers playing music is likely to be set according to the loudest tracks that are played. As a result anything quiet become hard to hear over the background noise of folk chatting. So you end up with a sort of prisoners dilemma scenario where it seems like you have no option but to master your CDs loud.
Similarly, adverts on TV are usually much louder than the shows they're interrupting to try and grab your attention and they all compete with each other for that attention. Very annoying.
- Edinburger 18y agoAbsolutely, I agree with all of your points. I'm suggesting the car as one more factor, not the only factor :-)
- marksutherland 18y agoAh. Fair enough :)
- derefr 18y agoOr you could pay jukebox manufacturers to put in a chip that does the same thing the radio broadcast techs do--flattens out the average volume-per-track to whatever the volume knob says it should be. If the volume knob on my CD player actually said "mean track SPL" and had real measurements on the ticks (calibrated for a certain set of reference speakers, obviously), rather than just going "to 11", I'd be a lot happier (especially at night when I might have adjusted my volume while listening to a quiet song, and then the next song wakes up my neighbours.)