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Re:Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal o... by pkulak on Saturday June 27, 2026 @11:39AM (#48699185)
I don’t think YouTube normalizes the audio on their videos. I have no idea why, but that could easily become a quiet video that leads into a -16 LUFS ad that blows your ears out.
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Re:Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal o... by dinfinity on Saturday June 27, 2026 @12:16PM (#48699482)
They have a "stable volume" toggle, actually. I don't see ads, so I don't know whether it works for those.
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Re:Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal o... by Filligree on Saturday June 27, 2026 @12:59PM (#48699838)
They do, but as usual with those, it wrecks all the decently mixed videos by making everything the same volume.

Though as those are rare as hen’s teeth, perhaps you might as well.

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Re:Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal o... by tabbytown on Saturday June 27, 2026 @02:49PM (#48700677)
Supposedly they'll turn it down if it's mastered louder than -14 LUFS. They won't turn it up if it's quieter.

I couldn't find a Youtube source for this but it's mentioned extensively online: https://audio.rswaver.com/blog/youtube-loudness-standards

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Re:Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal o... by topranks on Sunday June 28, 2026 @07:01AM (#48706272)
You “turn it up” by using dynamic range compression. Which is fundamentally altering the work.

It’s right and proper YouTube do not do this to people’s work.

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Re:Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal o... by topranks on Sunday June 28, 2026 @06:59AM (#48706268)
Because content creators have a right to produce audio how they want.

If it’s a video of someone speaking in a quiet voice it shouldn’t have to have an average volume level of a new Metallica video. Forcing people to use heavy dynamic range compression to get it there would not be good.

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