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Volume normalization

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
April 22, 2018
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Sonos needs volume normalization. Even services that have it such as Spotify pandora and Apple Music are not normalized when playing on Sonos.

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mgibson323

Trending Lyricist I

This has recently become a serious issue for me, so much so that I am considering getting rid of my Sonos system.

Suddenly, over the last few weeks, the volume levels across songs on Apple Music when played via Sonos are all over the place. This began happening soon after the mysterious “this song is encoded incorrectly” error messages began (these have now mostly stopped). Something, somewhere, must have changed.

As a customer, it doesn’t matter to me if Sonos is at fault or Apple Music is at fault – at the end of the day, I just want it to be usable.

Sonos needs to figure this out, because it works fine when I play Apple Music via a BT speaker, or my headphones.

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codeman318

Lyricist III

This has recently become a serious issue for me, so much so that I am considering getting rid of my Sonos system.

Suddenly, over the last few weeks, the volume levels across songs on Apple Music when played via Sonos are all over the place. This began happening soon after the mysterious “this song is encoded incorrectly” error messages began (these have now mostly stopped). Something, somewhere, must have changed.

As a customer, it doesn’t matter to me if Sonos is at fault or Apple Music is at fault – at the end of the day, I just want it to be usable.

Sonos needs to figure this out, because it works fine when I play Apple Music via a BT speaker, or my headphones.

I have been having this same issue since 15.2 or whenever they introduced the Eras.

I pinpointed that songs encoded as MPEG in my AM library are the culprits. So I’m either replacing them with the Apple Music variant or importing them into Garage Band (lowering the dB if needed) and bouncing them out as AAC. Converting them within the Music app didn’t fix the volume issue.

I was using AirPlay (which sucks itself) and playing music from my iOS devices with Sound Check enabled as a “work around” but literally had ZERO issues with volume inconsistencies prior to 15.2 almost a year ago playing through the Sonos app!

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