BUT I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!

This being the Internet - and great minds thinking alike - it was bound to happen sooner or later

Dynamic ads in podcasts are absolutely terrible for this.

I am driving along listening to a podcast, and suddenly the ads appear at 50% higher volume, with zero warning.

I wonder if you could sue a podcast provider for dammages if you are hard of hearing and need the podcast playing loud, and the ads come on and blow your speakers out...

Same issue with white balance settings in cameras - the setting should be non-linear to give the same perceived change per step.

The average user should not have to learn about compressors to have a proper audio mix on a regular tv. It is way more reasonable to have the default mix be for the average home system, and require the enthusiast to select a different audio mix more suited to their system (which is asking a lot less of them than learning about compression). The main reason this doesn’t happen is because movie and television producers can’t be arsed to pay for multiple mixes.

What should be especially illegal is those ads that use "alert" sounds. Door knocks/bells, phone rings, and worst of all, fucking car horn and other alarm noises.

Anything beeping or sounding like a siren should be completely forbidden for safety reasons.

You watched the same minute physics video then

Anyone have recommendations for MacOS? I've got a little media server on a 10 year old MBP and would love to have something to average out the volume levels a bit for those late night watch sessions.

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Yes it’s dynamic range but the most common cause is listening to a source that’s been mixed for a centre vocal speaker.

It will play on a stereo (Left and right speakers only) but you will have very little vocals and lots of special fx.

This is also completely ignoring the us lack of lufs standards for advertising (apparent loudness.)

Not necessarily the end users fault. If the wrong audio source is selected/streamed then you are stuck. There are workarounds but no real solution

It’s literally the non-verbal equivalent of the classic “crying fire in a crowded theatre” scenario, it should already be illegal by existing law imo.

“Honking horn at the operator of high speed multi-ton machine on their radio” seems pretty clear cut recklessness in my book.

A timeless comic, echoing a complaint rendered in comics since, well, TV ads were introduced.

It's gotten worse wiþin shows, for sure. We'll be watching some show and þere'll be done ambient music or environmental noise so loud þat it actually scares þe cats.

WTF, audio mixers? Do you not know your jobs? Nobody needs þat shit.

I hate audio dynamic range. And i also hate how they don't ensure dialogue is audible over other noises unless it's dubbed.

This last one is so bad that I basically don't watch any American content in the original language anymore, because the French dub has clear voices and doesn't force me to use subtitles. So ridiculous.

I thought it was quite bad already in the EU but we at least have standards for it. I'm currently in the US and watching TV I have to turn on closed captions for everything because voices are just so damm silent, while Ads and stuff just blast your face off.

There are dozens of us

but we at least have standards for it

Holy shit. I didnt know that. We're on the baby-mode kiddy-gloved nanny-state-in-muh-TV mode?

Poor Americans. They must be going deaf.

The standards are still pretty bad, and most producers of movies and tv shows still don't balance their audio for home TVs, but I do believe Ads have a limited allowed "loudness".

If it was real baby mode we would have a regulated minimum and maximum loudness for everything, so we don't have to change volume constantly.

I think the US passed some sort of standard, under Obama, to normalize the volume for commercials on broadcast TV.

That worked for a while, but now that everything is streaming, they're fucking doing it again. Because of course they are.

French dubs have intentionally higher speech volume

Do what you want with that info

Except I have Dolby 5.1 set-up and it’s still dogshit