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.
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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Ollee64
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I agree with this in that there should be some sort of master auto ducking at the beginning of all volume variable state changes on the site. Going from channel to channel, the player keeps previous settings, but 75% can go from too quiet, to just right, to EXTREMELY EARBLEEDINGLY LOUD in a matter of 5 clicks. It's something I've come to expect, but it would be a relatively simple QoL improvement that would make the player more user friendly. This would be another QoL improvement with Ads that if they matched the relative volume of the what your video player is currently set at.
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M
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I've been reporting pv pro adv since at least few weeks for being too loud. You do nothing
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qpan
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a couple more ads to bring to the table one is the JOHN WICK movie AD OMG thats loud , and the TACO BELL AD , i realize twitch has a releationship with taco bell but really ?? the dB value is way to high when i can hear the ad across the room with my head phones OFF
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Anonymous
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FUCK YOU MY FUCKING GOD IT WOKE ME UP CHANGE THIS FUCKING GARBAGE YOU UNTHOUGHTFUL MONSTERS
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Anonymous
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FUCK YOU STOP MAKIng LOUD ADVERTISEMENTS THAT FUCKING BLAST WHEN THE STREAM IS MUTED YOU FUCKING ASSSHOLE PIECEs OF SHIT
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Maxamune
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Keep it up twitch with being unable to mute the ads and I'll start a boycott. Stop it with the unfair practices you greedy son of a bitches. You are rich enough.
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FreshAir_5
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this really needs to be fixed but twitch apparently doesn't care/does it on purpose :( (many users posted this problem here already)
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Anonymous
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please ensure ads can be muted, I am getting ads that do not respond in any way to volume slider and blast at uncomfortably high volume
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Anonymous
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Let me mute the commercial when entering streams would be perfect! So annoying
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Jurgen Atkinson
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If you're using google chrome, you can right click the tab to mute the tab so all ads will be muted along with the stream. If you aren't using Chrome, other web browsers might have similar functions. I don't know.
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qpan
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now the Taco bell ad that cant be turned down or effected , seeing twitch has a close partnership with taco bell i expected better than this kind of thing to slip thru . FIX the ad situation
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Anonymous
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the commercial for that Mt. Dew drink has made me swear off Mt. Dew. I activly tab out of whatever I'm doing to mute the page as soon as that commercial comes on. It is louder than anything I have running, playes far too often, and is just obnoxious.
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Anonymous
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Could it be made, that after 10 views, you can skip, like it is possible with so many other ads?
Thanks in advance!
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Richard
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Ads are waay to loud. It's gonna lead to alot of young people developing hearing problems as they grow up. Show some damn responsability..
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qpan
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agreed im to the point that the DB volume is excessive on verge of being not good for the ears when you have to rip off your headset to avoid it . on quite a few adverts , ill tell you now i DONT WANT Dead rising 4 because of this cuz of such a painful reminder this advert brings
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Nikp190
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Make a warning on some advertisements that it is too loud to make people control the volume before the advertisement pops up.. its sometimes its getting really eardmg)
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FixTheBullshitAdVolume
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How is this still not fucking taken care of yet.
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Anonymous
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Ads volume level is not based on players (like, 10% stream and 100%)
Some ads cant be skipped, im okay with that. but when it suddenly screams in my headphones i guess i am forced to use adblock -
qpan
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agreed this is a big issue , i dont like to use Adblock on twitch , cause it hurts both twitch and the partnered streamers i watch , but better Advert Quality control is needed . the main ad that are real bad is the Truth ads, the Dead Rising 4 ad ( WAY TOO LOUD) and the Last guardian ad to name a few that have happened to me recently that are loud and have no player control function , also a most of the adverts that have chat banner ads , break chat about 50% of the time now , i feel the banner ads should be moved to a another spot on the page .
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Anonymous
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The tobacco truth ads are the worse for this, but there are many other problem ones. They ignore the player volume set for channels.