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Volume normalisation on Sonos?

3 years ago
21 October 2020
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captainknut
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I just noticed that my Sonos system adjusts the volume automatically between loud and quiet songs. I haven’t noticed this before. It is extremely annoying, and especially noticeable when I play an album where the songs run into each other. The system also inserts a little gap between the songs. ALSO extremely annoying. I tried playing the same music files on another player, and there is no difference in the volume and no gap between the songs on that player, so it’s not the files that are ripped that way, it is the Sonos system that plays around with the volume. Like I said, I’ve never noticed it before. What has happened? Where do I turn it off?

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Best answer by Corry P 11 February 2021, 13:51

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Corry P
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3 years ago
11 February 2021

Thanks again @ratty and @captainknut. I spoke with an engineer and got clarification - it was a technical communication error. “Applying normalisation” refers to actually scanning files and setting the tag embedded in them (or adjusting the levels during encoding/ripping), which Sonos does not do.

Exactly as @captainknut said minutes before I posted this, and I didn’t notice. :grin:

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3 years ago
11 February 2021

Which brings us back to the question - shouldn’t it be possible to add a setting in the Sonos app to let the user choose to read/not read the tag info? The effect would simply be the same as stripping/not stripping the actual tag from the file, which obviously works.

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