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I don't mind the actual tracks having various mixing/mastering. I do mind when a commercial is compressed/mastered with the intent to be perceived louder to sta

by djloche 12y ago

I don't mind the actual tracks having various mixing/mastering. I do mind when a commercial is compressed/mastered with the intent to be perceived louder to stand out from the actual music/video that you are watching.

smcl 12y ago
I don't think we (the consumers\audience) are ever going to win that war.
- click170 12y ago
  Stuff like that bugs me too, and is one of the reasons I have no compunction about pirating content. VLC supports a dynamic range audio compressor, meaning you can configure it to make the quiet parts loud, and the loud parts quiet. If they want to play those bullshit games with the volume of commercials, then I'll play dirty too by using pirated content that has every single commercial removed, and will employ the dynamic range compressor as well to make sure the quiet parts of shows are audible and the loud parts aren't irritating. I just feel sorry for the poor saps who have to tolerate these bullshit shenanigans when even the regulators have been calling out inexplicably loud commercials. Then again with how cheap Raspberry Pis are, maybe we're closer to everyone using pirated content than we are to get Hollywood and producers of commercials to stop the BS. Balls in your court Hollywood.
- elarkin 12y ago
  Actually, it's already illegal in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudness_Mitigation_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudne...
  - Karunamon 12y ago
    In theory, yes, in practice, that just means the commercials are compressed to the single loudest part of the TV show they accompany. Net effect: Nil. The commercial still sounds louder than everything else.
    - timc3 12y ago
      Not for much longer, one of the highlights of the past couple of years of NAB has been new algorithms and hardware to combat exactly this issue.
  - djloche 12y ago
    On broadcast TV, or maybe on Cable TV. Advertisers play the same games at Spotify, Youtube, etc.

by djloche 12y ago

smcl 12y ago

I don't think we (the consumers\audience) are ever going to win that war.

click170 12y ago
Stuff like that bugs me too, and is one of the reasons I have no compunction about pirating content. VLC supports a dynamic range audio compressor, meaning you can configure it to make the quiet parts loud, and the loud parts quiet. If they want to play those bullshit games with the volume of commercials, then I'll play dirty too by using pirated content that has every single commercial removed, and will employ the dynamic range compressor as well to make sure the quiet parts of shows are audible and the loud parts aren't irritating. I just feel sorry for the poor saps who have to tolerate these bullshit shenanigans when even the regulators have been calling out inexplicably loud commercials. Then again with how cheap Raspberry Pis are, maybe we're closer to everyone using pirated content than we are to get Hollywood and producers of commercials to stop the BS. Balls in your court Hollywood.
elarkin 12y ago
Actually, it's already illegal in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudness_Mitigation_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudne...
- Karunamon 12y ago
  In theory, yes, in practice, that just means the commercials are compressed to the single loudest part of the TV show they accompany. Net effect: Nil. The commercial still sounds louder than everything else.
  - timc3 12y ago
    Not for much longer, one of the highlights of the past couple of years of NAB has been new algorithms and hardware to combat exactly this issue.
- djloche 12y ago
  On broadcast TV, or maybe on Cable TV. Advertisers play the same games at Spotify, Youtube, etc.