normalize Ad volume with content volume
Not as frequently as before but still often, Ads play which are dramatically louder than the broadcast content. This is an annoyance, interferes with other people in the house, and frankly makes me more likely to mute the ad and go do something in a different tab.
Normalizing volume levels with stream average volume or peak volume wouldn't take a huge amount of processing power and would fix the problem entirely. It's required by the US's FCC in other broadcast mediums, but it's really just a quality of life improvement for the viewers and a mark of good production.
DaJMasta
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A majority of ads on web and TV apps should now have normalized sound. We are still continuing the work on this and will update the status again when it is fully complete!
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WildCard1188
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How is this still an issue? Does no one at Twitch have computers to watch streams and then have their ear drums blown out so they can hop on fixing this? Christ just drop the volume by 50% to start on all ads then tweak from there. Can't be this hard.
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ravenousooze
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The Aussie ad just burst my eardrums. Please fix this
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GhostLoads
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You literally risk permanent hearling loss from these ads.
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melissaellen1966
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Lower ad volume please !
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melissaellen1966
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Please lower the volume of the ads !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Shozzru
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Ads are still extremely loud, especially the Adobe one (when "Don't Stop Me Now" starts playing it blows out my speakers). Please do something about this.
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Nei7o
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To quote mouse: "Setting this to a partial release status as the majority of ads on web and TV apps should now have normalized sound."
I can confirm that the majority of the ads I have don't have normalized sound. Some ads are OK volume wise, but the majority are too loud. As soon as an ad comes up I need to mute the stream because it's too much. I'm pretty sure your advertisers don't want their ads auto-muted as soon as they come up.
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patatpatattack
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Your ads are extremely loud compared to streamer volume. I'm actually worried my hardware will get blown out when an ad plays. Please fix please please 🙏🙏
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jellyy_fish
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Your Voice Ads is Very Very Noisy pls reduct voice ads. I don't hate ads but I hate Noisy ads
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FleepOG
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Your ads are so ******* loud your on the verge of blowing out my sound system, do somehting about it it isnt fukcing hard to normalize the volume of ads, my 2014 smart phone could normalize the volume of my mp3s. hurry up
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bronwen_n
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Why is twitch allowing ads that are so loud that they cause physical pain for users with headphones? This complaint has been happening for over 5years and I would have hoped you'd take hearing damage more seriously than this. The volume jump from stream to ad is ridiculous.
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Jager798
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I don't think people should have their ears blown out if they are watching a stream that is a little quieter, and then get their ears blown out when an ad starts to play.
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CuppCakeTTV
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Can you change it back from partial release? Because I really haven't noticed it until today, but like 3 of the ads throughout an hour stream made me throw my headset off because they almost blew out my eardrums. And since there isn't really a warning, especially if you just have a stream you're listening to while doing other things, it can catch people off guard. This is kind of ridiculous. You force us to watch this stuff full screen, and are now liable for physical harm at this point.
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WolvogNerd
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The majority of ads that I receive while watching on Twitch are WAY too loud and intrusive. I am currently dealing with tinnitus issues due to these ads so I won't be using twitch until I find a solution (or until Twitch fixes the issue)
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WolvogNerd
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This issue seems to be getting even worse! What the heck!? I just had a rice crispie and mcdonalds commercial hurt my ears. I had horrible tinnitus last night from loud commercials (coca-cola, mcdonald and rice crispie commericals stand out as the loudest for me)
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VntageVictoria
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It's insane to see how over the years, Twitch says "they're fixing the ad volume"..... YET STILL HAVEN'T FIXED IT!!!!
It goes AGAINST THE FCC REGULATIONS to BLAST people's eardrums out!!!!
Like MANY people agree, it's not that hard to regulate the ad volumes!!!!!!!!!!!! I do not doubt Twitch has something on their side that they can code or whatever, to NOT HAVE THE ADS SCREAMING AT US!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This does NOT get my attention to inquire about the product in the ad!!! It makes me immediately turn the player down & or refresh, as to get back to the video to skip the screaming ad!!!!!Edit: Furthermore, I see the screaming ads want to make more people get adblocker. I have never supported ad blockers, because this is one way streamers get PAID! And it's FREE for us to watch an ad. BUT, if the ad is screaming at us, more people are going to be prompted to get ad blockers!
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ethanthetoole
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Pretty much all the ads that play while I watch a stream deafen me because they come on sooo much louder than the stream and most of the time I can't adjust the sound as I am tabbed out in a game. Maybe there's a way to keep ads and the stream with in the same noise range?
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gamma_green
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The most annoying thing about this is that especially the twitch ad for twitch is the loudest. I'm not even sure what that ad is about exactly cause I always have to jump up immediately to get the remote and mute.
Ridiculous. Infuriating.
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scarletgezza
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No ads on ASMR channels.
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blutooth5
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Why is this worse now and not been fixed yet?