:minwlfNotice: flori_ava_star~:cursor_blinking: (@star)

@star@amazonawaws.com

airing slight grievances about FOSS music players

Can ANYONE tell me why the fuck it is so hard for open source audio players (esp. Navidrome clients) to have functional audio normalization??????? One track is normal, the next is super silent; I turn up my volume only to have my ears exploded when the next track starts playing. Yes yes, ReplayGain, sure, but why don't you just.............. do this as a completely client-side feature. aaaaalkjisdflkj;sdgflkj;sgdflkj;sfgdlkj;

1❤️2

⌬-0x7a5ec6 @astreaprtcl@fedi.c6h6.eu

re: airing slight grievances about FOSS music players

@star
yeah. that is so incredibly annoying
this one has made its navidrome transcode the songs with replaygain applied exactly because of that grievance
yes, it is by far not a perfect solution
but since the apps almost never load the entire song at once, probably the best that will exist for quite some time

shironeko @shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club

@star wait what’s wrong with replaygain?

flori_ava_star~

@star@amazonawaws.com

@shironeko i feel like it isn't necessarily accurate? idk; maybe i am doing something wrong with it ?

shironeko @shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club

@star Yeah, loudness is a psychological thing so it would vary person to person.

iirc some players would let you adjust the replaygain tags so you can tweak particular tracks that you find annoying. You can also check if your tagger is using replaygain 2.0 which uses the industry standard EBU R128

sammy 🐾 @sammy@cherrykitten.gay

personal opinion re: airing slight grievances about FOSS music players

@star wouldn't care about it being an option, but i think a lot of people would agree that i don't want a client to be messing with my files or the audio at all, i want it to play exactly what's in the files and if the volumes are weird then that's a problem with my library that i need to fix myself?

❤️1

flori_ava_star~

@star@amazonawaws.com

personal opinion re: airing slight grievances about FOSS music players

@sammy Nothing wrong with this being a toggleable option! I can see why you would want that. But for more casual listeners, such as myself... there's a reason for why this ships enabled by default in Spotify and co.

❤️1