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Bug 325224 - Normalize audio volume
Normalize audio volume
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: rhythmbox
Classification: Other
Component: playback
0.9.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: RhythmBox Maintainers
RhythmBox Maintainers
: 526223 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-12-29 15:08 UTC by Xavier Spriet
Modified: 2018-05-24 11:01 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Xavier Spriet 2005-12-29 15:08:58 UTC 
On large libraries and while listening to files from various different sources,
it is common for files to be encoded at different volume settings.

This forces the user to have to constantly adjust the audio volume every time
the app starts playing a new song. It would be nice to have an option to
normalize the volume to a value specified by the audio volume slider, instead of
simply using that slider to adjust the alsa mixer volume.
Comment 1 Christophe Fergeau 2005-12-29 15:12:34 UTC 
If your files have replay gain tags, rhythmbox will automatically adjust the song volume ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_Gain for more info about replay gain).
Comment 2 Emmanuel Fleury 2007-11-28 17:55:50 UTC 
Is this issue still valid ? Seems to be already fixed.
Comment 3 linkadmin 2007-11-28 20:58:26 UTC 
Well I'm still hearing tunes at different volumes and have to adjust the sound to get higher volume on the low-volume ones, so the issue isn't resolved from a user stand-point, but if normalization is only supposed to work for files with replay gain tags, then I guess it's working as designed.
Comment 4 Jonathan Matthew 2008-04-04 21:59:28 UTC 
*** Bug 526223 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 roger 2008-04-05 02:17:06 UTC 
Shouldn't this feature be a user switched option vs. an "always on option"?


Thanks for noticing this issue!
Comment 6 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2010-05-18 18:05:23 UTC 
There seems to be a replaygain plugin in rhythmbox now, disabled by default. Is this bug report still relevant?
Comment 7 Eric Houston 2011-01-31 14:09:57 UTC 
Virtually all of the audio sources that I listen to (i.e. YouTube) are hard to hear.  I always have my volume controls boosted to the max and it never gets loud enough.  This is very inconvient.
Comment 8 Eric Houston 2011-01-31 14:10:52 UTC 
Virtually all of the audio sources that I listen to (i.e. YouTube) are hard to
hear.  I always have my volume controls boosted to the max and it never gets
loud enough.  This is very inconvenient.
Comment 9 Eric Houston 2011-01-31 14:42:36 UTC 
I have a new email address...  And this problem is still annoying...
Comment 10 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 11:01:44 UTC 
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