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Some songs come through really loud and others quiet. I believe this has something to do with dynamic range compression & mastering. I think the spotify app allows this as an option if using airplay. I see that Sonos doesn’t have this currently. They have volume limit, but thats not what I’m looking for. Any ideas if this is a future feature or how to request this as one?

Note: I’ve seen other topics related to NOT wanting volume normalization and/or respecting meta tags from other sources. But, this question is more about an option to auto apply volume normalization across music and services. This way regardless of how the song is mastered all songs will be roughly at the same volume level. Its exhausting having to change the volume when different songs play on a playlist either from a music service attached to sonos or from a sonos playlist.

Hi ​@cgeheran, 

I can take your thread here as a request for this. While we can’t comment on our roadmap or give an ETA on when/if a feature will be added, I’d be happy to forward this to the relevant team for their consideration. 

If you have any more suggestions or requests, please don’t hesitate to share them here or on another community thread.

Totally understandable that you can’t comment on the roadmap unless something’s close to launching. I appreciate you passing the suggestion along to the Sonos team — volume normalization would make the system more robust and consistent, reducing the need to constantly adjust volume between songs.

I can’t see how this can work, unless you play the tracks through the native Apps. To normalize volume, the album/tracks would have to be analyzed before they are streamed, only Spotify/Apple/Amazon/Google can do this, and then normalize through their respective Apps.

AFAIK Spotify Connect/Web and Apple Web player do not normalize volume.

So what is the work around?  Create your playlist on a Google/apple/spotify and do not use Sonos playlist function?

 

I agree it is quite annoying to play curated lists and have to continue to adjust volume levels.  

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