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burakalaka
Contributor I
July 23, 2020

Spotify Volume Leveling / Normalization

  • July 23, 2020
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Since I only found posts about this topic from a year ago or older, I wanted to check if there has been any progress for volume normalization when using a third party app (in my case Spotify).

The setting for it in the Spotify app is only applied on the device youre changing it on. Because those settings are not accessible in the Sonos app, there is no way to set it for my brand new Sonos setup (neither through Spotify nor Sonos).

The result is that the volume of the music varies frequently; often just slightly, but regularly its very noticeable. It happens often enough to degrade the user experience considerably.

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    AleW
    Contributor I
    December 3, 2020

    I’ve just bought a new full Sonos set up and disappointed to find this issue, especially since shelling out a lot of cash for these speakers. There seems to be posts about this from 7 years back with no signs of any development on it!

    I can’t imagine this issue would be that hard to fix. Come on Sonos!

      chapaa
      Lyricist I
      January 8, 2021

      Can anyone from Sonos reply to this?

      The lack of volume leveling or normalization with Spotify is really inexcusable. 

        Ddb2018
        Lyricist I
        January 15, 2021

        I just upgraded all of my legacy Sonos products and realize once again that this wasn’t addressed despite spending more than $1200.00.  

         

        Help us, the community of early adopters and enthusiasts, support Sonos and not go the route of smart speakers with audio synchronization such as Google’s devices.  Sonos just has to work in order to justify the additional costs.   

          Bug80
          Lyricist I
          January 24, 2021

          Count me in. Playlists are sometimes not listenable due to the huge differences in volume between songs.

          I don’t think this would be too difficult to implement in the Sonos firmware, from an engineering point of view (as long as the Spotify API is able to deliver the gain per song, that is).

            mawafi
            Lyricist I
            February 15, 2021

            It’s definitely possible - not sure if this is a new feature from spotify but average volume is available for any track, see https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#object-audiofeaturesobject. 

              DennisVerez
              Lyricist I
              March 15, 2021

              Would be lovely to get an update on this.

                Rhonny
                Prodigy III
                May 21, 2021

                I simply don't understand why this most fundamental of features is not part of Sonos. Any playlist takes songs from different albums, all of which have different volume levels. It's not even like it's a rare thing to experience. It's such a major part of the UX, and it takes the edge off the listening experience for me. 

                 

                Surely being able to set a consistent volume that raises and lowers levels by track isn't that complicated, when you consider what else Sonos can do? 

                  MikeD-FN
                  Lyricist I
                  June 5, 2021

                  Just spent an awful lot of money kitting out an entire bar with Sonos speakers, never even dreaming that this would even be a issue in 2021.

                   

                  But apparently it is. A big issue. And one that makes the sound system in our bar almost unusable. 

                   

                  And apparently Sonos can’t even be bothered to respond to this thread let alone sort the issue?

                   

                  Sort yourselves out, Sonos, or the whole lot is going on the dump...

                    BadgerMan
                    Lyricist III
                    June 28, 2021

                    Ugh, another large corporation that completely ignores obvious user demand for a feature that would be of tremendous value to users and cost the company fuck all to implement. :rolling_eyes:

                      Kumar
                      June 28, 2021

                      Ugh, another large corporation that completely ignores obvious user demand for a feature that would be of tremendous value to users and cost the company fuck all to implement. :rolling_eyes:

                      I agree that doing this would be far more useful than faffing around with the red herring of Hi Res audio, but I don't think any other make offers this either; it is not that easy to implement for music from streaming services, I suspect. 

                      Spotify offers this for music played on the phone, and it is then available on Sonos if the phone audio is sent to Sonos via bluetooth; but that is a clunky way when Spotify connect can move the music stream to Sonos - but via that mode, normalisation is lost.

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