Hello,

what I mean by that is that whenever I download a song from youtube using yt-dlp and listen to it using mpv it always feels like I am listening to a higher quality version of the music, I don’t know it it’s just me or there is some scientific reason behind it.

  • Steve
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    3 days ago

    Volume and Dynamic Range are different things. One doesn’t effect the other.

    Stable Volume just uses a form of ReplayGain to adjust volume for each track so they don’t swing so much.

    It’s not doing any dynamic range compression, like some Nighttime Listening mode.

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      2 days ago

      Tell that to the GuitarTubers whose audio get squashed to oblivion.

      I can literally hear pumping clear as day in response to loud moments. It absolutely is doing dynamic range compression.

      Its so obvious that I realized I was logged out of my Youtube account after a browser update and had to disable it again.

    • Hond@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      But YT definetly fucks something up when stable volume is enabled. My non audiophile ass can notice it instantly even with podcasts. It sounds significantly worse.