Volume normalization

My question is to the implementation by Spotify in that case and whether it truly does the job well. I could test via line in one of these days since I don't have AirPlay, this is just the lazy way of finding out!

If it does, I will have to consider adding a phone as a line in source on a permanent basis.

As reported in another thread, this works if the music being played on the Spotify app on the phone is sent to the player wirelessly by either bluetooth or airplay. And also will therefore work via wire to line in. 

And it works quite well, so there is a way to get this operating for those that must have it.

Upvote to Spotify and downvote to Sonos for not being able to do this. 

Any update on when we can expect volume normalization, which has been discussed and requested from Sonos for years, yet is still nowhere to be found?  This seems like a basic feature these days (iTunes had it a decade + ago), and it is still very sorely missing from Sonos’ app.  For people who, like me, have created playlist from a number of sources (streaming services, iTunes), not having volume normalization is a real pain.   Tx

Fairly new Sonos user here. This system is almost perfect, and what’s missing is volume normalization!

It’s a pain to Airplay all the time. On top of that, all the audio on my laptop is streamed to my speakers, which is not desirable when there are extra sounds I only want to hear on my internal speakers / AirPods (notifications, watching a quick YouTube video, etc).

It’s OK if I’m playing and album, as the volume is normalized across songs anyway (plus I want the dynamics in this case), but when listening to a playlist with songs from different albums (or, mind you, different streaming services), I really need to keep my hand on the volume controls.

So yeah… here’s another vote for this feature from me! 👍

Cheers

I agree that this is a serious problem.  I just spent a fortune to migrate my multiroom audio setup from being based on AppleTVs/Airplay to Sonus.  tvOS 13 ruined the ability to use the Apple platform for me and after a year of complaining I finally gave up. Overall Sonos has been significantly better and much more reliable.  Except for volume normalization! 

I am mostly streaming my own mp3’s from a media server, so I don’t really care about the Spotify stuff.  iTunes is able to normalize with software without intense processing demands, so I’m not sure why Sonos won’t do it.  mp3 files actually have a field for changing volume in the metadata, and mp3gain is a software that analyzes the loudness of the track and sets this field to a normalized level of your choosing in a non-destructive fashion.  I have done this for all of my files, but apparently Sonus doesn’t read this with their player.  I wish they would! 

Any updates on volume normalization? I can see this request is at least 2 years old. This feature would be great! 

So I have updated all my Sonos to S2. Is volume normalization available for my local music library? I don't so streaming services so I just need it for my library.

Can someone from Sonos please give an update on this? Clearly the technology is there if you can use a workaround with Airplay! It’s embarrassing that you can have a better streaming experience with a low end product than Sonos. Streaming music is the primary function of Sonos and it is failing!

volume normalization is definitively on top of my wish list. why not at least make this work for integrations that internally already support this like spotify does? at least for me that would already do the trick.

Just found this after scaring the s**t out of my family when an old CD rip from the 90’s segued into a CD released more recently.

The lack of SOME kind of volume leveling within the SONOS playback is, at this point, a ridiculous oversight.  With major streaming platforms offering SOMETHING  (Spotify->Volume Normalization, Apple Music->Sound Check) and for those who care enough to support a standard, the ReplayGain tag, there doesn’t seem to be an excuse for not leveling playback volume for those who want it.

And worse than having not implemented this seemingly standard functionality is the fact that SONOS has ignored a two-year old thread with nothing but the old go-to: “We’ll tell the programmers about your revolutionary idea.” It’s embarrassing to SONOS as a “leader” in audio hardware and simply infuriating to anyone who has sunk multiple thousands of dollars into it.