Hi. I’ve tried to use PlexAmp on OSX but I’m not happy at all with the result. While it plays FLAC (server is on the same LAN) in “Direct Play” the sound was not good (to my ears). I’ve tried to play the same file with VLC, it sounded better. It sounded better too with the Plex web player… So …

To think louder = better is a very common fallacy. It is not. Technical background: Plexamp is doing what all the other Plex clients cannot do yet: loudness leveling. I.e. it will try as good as it can that each track will appear to the listener as having the same volume. No easy feat, considering …

I don’t want to start another “loudness war” not get an explanation between “loud” and “dynamic”: I know the track I used to test is “not good” (to say the least, it’s DR5). It’s just that I don’t want the player I use to do some unwanted compression ("loudness leveling), I want it to play the trac…

Great, thanks for the link. I’ll look for the file on my computer (Mac) and try it out. I found additional informations on the feature server-side (the butler thread 8-)).

I just want to add, that this feature is hopefully introduced in every player in the world. Because it makes the ‘loudness war’ almost pointless to pursue, since all recordings end up played back at the same volume. In fact, an over-compressed mastering will sound poorer than a reasonably mastered …

Just so I’m understanding this correctly, the PlexAmp player doesn’t modify the audio from my direct play FLAC files, it’s simply adjusting the volume a little higher for “low loudness” tracks, a little lower for “higher loudness” tracks, and does nothing for tracks right in the “middle” as far as l…

[image] Funky_Boss: Just so I’m understanding this correctly, the PlexAmp player doesn’t modify the audio from my direct play FLAC files, it’s simply adjusting the volume a little higher for “low loudness” tracks, a little lower for “higher loudness” tracks, and does nothing for tracks right in …

A few more details, because this topic is close to my heart. First a definition of terms: Peak Level = the volume of the highest peak of the wave form Loudness = the perceived volume of the track to a human listener. Two tracks can have the same peak level (i.e. they are both ‘normalized’ to peak…

I would LOVE it if Plex did this with other media files. Was watching a playlist of 70s sitcoms yesterday, and they were all over the board for volume levels. Jack Tripper just isn’t the same if you can’t hear him.

+1 for getting peak adjustment added for video files to other clients, too – or even getting peak normalisation (nb not compression) added to the server rather than leaving it to the client (please!)

Level/dynamic issue

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OttoKerner July 8, 2018, 11:27am 4

Plexamp doesn’t do compression. (Thank $deity!)
It just raises or lowers volume to achieve its goal.

If you think digital volume change is evil, you can disable that by editing a text file

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Level/dynamic issue

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