Volume normalization

@106rallye Not true. Radio stations employ compressor/limiters in their broadcast chain. So it’s not necessarily *only* the output of the studio mixer that commands loudness. It can be addressed anywhere in the stream, even post the compressed signal.

The point is that 

1. loudness variation between music sources exists

2. we have all invested heavily in Sonos equipment
3. Sonos is in a position to create active compressor/limiter software that can address this
4. Is Sonos responsible? No! Can they mitigate this? Yes...

I’m not saying they couldn’t, but in my opinion problems should be eradicated at the source. The source in this case is a radio station/broadcast chain that maybe could alter their settings if they know there is a complaint. Otherwise precious programming capacity by Sonos would be used to cure someone else’s faults - which they may not even be aware of.

• 106rallye: I did send the issue simultaneously to the radio stations, where the problems exit, when I sent that original message.  Of course they want to point the finger the other direction :)   Kind of normal these days.  Thanks for your reply.

I second this. Please add volume normalization. It is very annoying when you have to change volume to hear the music. 

It’s been a lot more than a year since this request was made.  People have been asking for it since the beginning of Sonos.  The fact we don’t have it yet gives you an idea how much interest Sonos has in fixing it.

Or perhaps how difficult it might be. 

Apple has already done the work.  Volume normalization is built in to iTunes and Apple Music.  But it doesn’t work on Sonos.  I’m not an expert, but it sounds like the heavy lifting is already done.  

There used to be a FAQ where Sonos said they take note of the iTunNorm tag from iTunes. That FAQ, which also dealt with ReplayGain, has evidently been pulled.

Since I won’t let iTunes infest my PC I’ve never tested iTunNorm, but ReplayGain does work, after a fashion.

+1

Spotify tracks with old tracks make quite a mess of low and high volumes

Omg. This issue has been around for years and as someone that changed my ecosystem over to Sonos its extremely disappointing to say the least. 
 

The issue happens with any of the streaming services. Has Sonos even given us a status update on this? As a company whose sole focus is audio, why hasn’t this been addressed yet?