Podcasts are too quiet; make them louder

[Brightside1]

Spotify is my app of choice to listen to podcasts but the sound quality on several podcasts across your platform is so bad that I struggle to hear what the podcaster is saying. To clarify, the volume is too quiet, especially when compared to the volume for music on Spotify.

Example podcasts: The Newest Olympian, FiveThirtyEight Politics, and Until Saturday.

These podcasts are part of large podcast networks or have huge backers (e.g. Disney and the NYT).

Either adjust the volume of podcasts automatically or give podcasters the tools they need to make their episodes audible. Or give listeners the tools to increase the volume of shows.

Spotify might want to blame the podcasts for having poor audio quality but when it happens across shows with large backers, it becomes Spotify’s problem to solve.

[ygingras]

The "Normalize volume" setting should do something to make the podcasts roughly as loud as songs, but it doesn't. Enabling this option still leaves the podcasts 20% to 30% quieter than songs.