# Trailers Extremely Loud

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/trailers-extremely-loud/584576>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [May 3, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/trailers-extremely-loud/584576 "2020-05-03T00:02:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![keyadash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@keyadash](https://forums.plex.tv/u/keyadash)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/trailers-extremely-loud/584576/1 "2020-05-03T00:02:28Z")

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When enabling playing trailers before movies, the previews are extremely loud. It’s so loud that the feature can only be called defective and unusable. This happens on my Apple TV.

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**Author:** ![NewPlaza](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/newplaza/32/128634_2.png) [@NewPlaza](https://forums.plex.tv/u/NewPlaza)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/trailers-extremely-loud/584576/2 "2020-05-03T01:07:28Z")

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We can say the same thing about TV commercials.

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> an entire commercial can be broadcast at the same level as an extra-loud explosion on the television series 24

Plex doesn’t play trailers at a louder volume setting. The issue is that they are louder recordings.  
Plex has no control over the production/trailer-making companies that created the trailers.

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**Author:** ![keyadash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@keyadash](https://forums.plex.tv/u/keyadash)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 3:42am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/trailers-extremely-loud/584576/3 "2020-05-03T03:42:19Z")

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Plex can implement sound controls. iTunes has it to manage recordings that are at different levels. iTunes calls it Sound Check and it is in Preferences \> Playback.

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**Author:** ![NewPlaza](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/newplaza/32/128634_2.png) [@NewPlaza](https://forums.plex.tv/u/NewPlaza)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/trailers-extremely-loud/584576/4 "2020-05-03T03:55:33Z")

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> [@Add support for dynamic range compression](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-support-for-dynamic-range-compression/21701):
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> As someone who watches movies with two small children sleeping in the next room, this would be a godsend. It’s particularly evident when watching 5.0 movies downmixed to 2.0. Low volume parts such as talking are barely audible whereas loud parts such as explosions and gunfire are deafening. Adding customizable dynamic range compression would help. Something like this (VLC) would be awesome: [http://imgur.com/C8lNK](http://imgur.com/C8lNK) Cheers, Rickard

Consider voting

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**Author:** ![keyadash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@keyadash](https://forums.plex.tv/u/keyadash)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 4:06am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/trailers-extremely-loud/584576/5 "2020-05-03T04:06:15Z")

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Not only are the trailers loud, I just got one in GERMAN. The Apple Remote app shows details of what’s playing, and that trailer was even labeled as “German Version” for the trailer. Come on… This is sad.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 4:06am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/trailers-extremely-loud/584576/6 "2020-08-01T04:06:21Z")

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