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TL; Dr
- YouTube Music is getting a brand new “Constant quantity” normalization possibility.
- The principle YouTube app has had its personal “steady quantity” instrument for a pair years now.
- The setting has began exhibiting up on each Android and iOS, however just a few folks have it to date.
Contemplating the sheer quantity of content material they provide, streaming from both YouTube or YouTube Music generally is a bit like taking a drink from a fireplace hose. However even once you’re able to dive into all that media, variations between how all that stuff was produced could make streaming just a little awkward. Again in 2023, YouTube launched a brand new choice to normalize audio quantity between movies. Now we’re listening to about one thing very related making its approach to YouTube Music.
Two years in the past, YouTube launched its “steady quantity” toggle, designed to reduce jarring transitions as you progress from clip to clip. And whereas that was an important begin, that is one characteristic that clearly wanted to make the journey YouTube Music as properly, contemplating its core audio focus.
That’s lastly now occurring, albeit with a slight rebranding within the course of. 9to5Google noticed a brand new “Constant quantity” possibility within the YouTube Music app on iOS. Proper now, this seems to both be a take a look at or a really sluggish roll-out, and whereas we’re not seeing it but on Android, Reddit person DangerousDementus stories recognizing it in playback settings on model 8.15.51 of YouTube Music for Android.
Toggling the choice ought to work the identical as its YouTube equal has, normalizing quantity throughout tracks such that even very completely different recordings will sound roughly as loud as one another. YouTube Music already provides an EQ for tweaking sound output, however hasn’t had a approach to automate adjustments in output from one observe to a different.
Hopefully we begin seeing Constant quantity present up in our YouTube Music settings quickly, as that is one characteristic that’s been a really very long time coming.
