I’m encountering a problem with Plexamp’s loudness leveling feature affecting playback of both my local music files and the TIDAL music in my library. TIDAL tracks consistently play at a volume approximately 2dB higher than my local files, even with loudness leveling enabled. This discrepancy was co…

[image] blackzwe: OP is responding they have it on in every post. Not in the first one. And in the subsequent responses it isn’t clear at all whether they kept it at on or not.

I have kept loudness leveling on throughout my experience with Plexamp, and the issue persists

Are you comparing the exact same version of the album, of local vs. Tidal? There is no difference? Not even a difference between regular and “deluxe” or “extended” release, with added bonus tracks? Are you certain that your version of the album has been ripped from the same disc, at the same time,…

The albums that I used to compare, are albums I own digitally. And yes, I made sure to use albums that are the same version (not any remasters etc.)

Then we can only proceed by looking at the Plexamp logs . Play one track from tidal, then play the same track from your local files directly afterwards. Then fetch the plexamp logs , zip them and drag them into this forum window.

We’re using the exact same code to analyze in both places, so I wouldn’t expect there to be a difference unless they are different versions of the same album (which is more common than you might think).

Plexamp logs loudness leveling.zip (20.9 KB) Here are the Plexamp logs , I have attached a summarized version which only includes lines that mention ‘gain’, ‘loudness’, ‘level’, or ‘audio’, and the full logs. I played the track Me and Michael by MGMT from their album Little Dark Age, first from TIDA…

The key is these three lines: Mar 15, 2024 01:38:47.496 [0x000041b4] INFO - BASS: Queueing stream (1 total, 0 handles) with identifier 2643, gain -10.2 dB, overlap duration 0 ms, start offset 0 ms (paused: 1). Mar 15, 2024 01:38:47.498 [0x00003e34] INFO - BASS: Queueing stream (2 total, 2 handles) …

Found tracks within my library that have the exact same base file with same duration, but still have different gains. I have attached the plexamp logs for those instances. same-file-different-gains.zip (26.6 KB)

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Plexamp loudness difference between local music and TIDAL music

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Noah0504 March 18, 2024, 10:48am 17

My experience has been similar. I’ve previously posted about it.

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Plexamp loudness difference between local music and TIDAL music

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