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TL;DR
- YouTube Music is getting a brand new “Constant quantity” normalization choice.
- The primary YouTube app has had its personal “steady quantity” device for a pair years now.
- The setting has began exhibiting up on each Android and iOS, however just a few individuals have it to this point.
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 hearth hose. However even while you’re able to dive into all that media, variations between how all that stuff was produced could make streaming a bit 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 method to YouTube Music.
Two years in the past, YouTube launched its “steady quantity” toggle, designed to attenuate jarring transitions as you progress from clip to clip. And whereas that was an excellent begin, that is one function that clearly wanted to make the journey YouTube Music as effectively, contemplating its core audio focus.
That’s lastly now taking place, albeit with a slight rebranding within the course of. 9to5Google noticed a brand new “Constant quantity” choice 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 experiences 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 kind of as loud as one another. YouTube Music already presents an EQ for tweaking sound output, however hasn’t had a method to automate adjustments in output from one monitor to a different.
Hopefully we begin seeing Constant quantity present up in our YouTube Music settings quickly, as that is one function that’s been a really very long time coming.
