Volume normalization for mobile devices.

[Hamcheese]

It sucks to have my ears blown out when I'm in the middle of riding my bike...

[evilhackerdude]

Posting the discussion I had on Twitter with @SpotifyCares https://twitter.com/SpotifyCares/status/552386287890862083

tl;dr: The barkeeper kept telling the bartender to change the volume depending on the song's volume. They didn't have professional audio equipment, just an iPad with Spotify connected to good speakers.

Anyway, there seem to be many people who have valid use cases for this feature. I get the audiophile angle, but it's definitely the minority of Spotify users.

How about having the setting in the app and leaving it off by default?

[mbug90]

I want this feature right now.

If anybody else agrees, I invite them to voice their concerns by continuing to post to this thread.  Do you want to wait two more years for this to be implemented?

[tastybass]

Oh man, this feature would be so great! It would change lives! Days would be better! The cafe I work in would be smoother sailing since we rely on Spotify for our music feed and the volume difference between songs limits how we can use it. We had to get Pandora to make up for it. It's a bummer that the wide functionality of mobile Spotify has to be truncated due to omission of a limiter/leveler option. Please add!

Ben

[Ditto]

This would make driving much nicer. I find myself using the defaul music app on my phone more than Spotify on any drive longer than a few minutes because constantly changing the volume is plain annoying when I'm listening to a playlist.

[user-removed]

 I recommended Spotify Premium to a friend who have a small cafe. Now I'm responsible for the terrrible sound level changes between songs that he is experiencing. What can I reply to him? That Spotify set the status of this problem to "Not right now"?

[wiik]

I would like to add that the "audiophile argument" is simply wrong and a misunderstanding. The request is not to change the actual audio, merely to change the playback level - not unlike adjusting a volume knob right before a track starts to play. This is not done while a track is playing (like a compressor), it merely presets different playback volumes for different tracks in order to avoid jumps in volume between them.

iTunes have been doing this for a long time - it even has a feature to preserve volume differences between tracks on an album if the listener wants a completely unaltered album listening experience.

The audiophile community has, in fact, a whole lot to gain (no pun intended) from loudness normalization across as many platforms as possible as this will eventually help to eliminate record companies using volume boosting in the record mastering process to compete with each other. I myself am a record producer and therefore content creator for Spotify and other plaforms, and by purposely denying this feature Spotify indirectly forces me to keep squashing the dynamics out of music.

As a music lover and Spotify premium subscriber since day one i find the lack of this feature disturbing and annoying, especially since it was present in the early versions and later removed. As an industry professional I find this unexplained behavior simply inexcusable.

[Ilzamastron]

My android spotify is deffinitely playing normalized versions of songs, i kinda wish it didn't.

This is quite easy to test if you have a way to output digitally (AirPlay or USB-OTG-DAC) and some way of measuring that output...

I'm an audio technician so i certainly do have means to measure true digital gain of tracks played with Spotify.... i'm using latest spotify from playstore and sammy galaxy note 4 @ lollipop 5.0.1 . . . .  

Result is as follows:

Song that has real life RMS -4dB (crazy loud) and peaks -0dB, is dropped to RMS-10dB and peaks -6dB so gain reduction for that track is 6dB.

(I've tested this with many different tracks, seems that the target RMS for normalized louder songs is somewhere around -12dB  or -10dB RMS)

Just noticed that Mac's Spotify has dropped the option to "set same volume for every track" and it plays tracks with their original gain as does IOS -spotify app.

Does windows program still have this option? or is spotify kicking normalizing for good?

I'm stuck with normalized versions of songs for android and original versions for other platforms, some choice would be nice...

[dragnier]

I recently upgraded my phone to an LG Optimus F7 from an HTC One V. The One V had Beats Audio and the Optimus doesn't. With the old phone I never encountered this issue. Now, in the absense of Beats, I have noticed a definite variance in loudness from some songs to others. Since I regularly use Spotify in my car, this can be a huge problem. Turning the volume up to hear the quieter songs causes the loud songs to blast my ears off. This needs to be addressed very soon!

[user-removed]

Please sort this junk out!

Volume normalization. VOLUME NORMALIZATION. Do you understand - Spotify?

V-O-L-U-M-E N-O-R-M-A-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N

[Silvie75]

If this urgent matter stays "not right now" my premium account will soon change into "not anymore".

There are other players who do offer this feature.