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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Setting this to a partial release status as the 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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Justarandomnoob
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Same. I guess Twitch makes more money for having their ads "stick out". That is the only rational explanation for why this is still an issue in 2021.
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bronwen_n
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I've noticed while listening to twitch with the volume turned right down (but not muted) that the volume is boosted during ads. I can touch the volume control and the volume goes low again, so the ads are not just not normalised, they are being artificially made louder against the volume choices of users. This is dangerous and it is something twitch itself is doing via the player. Please just stop all this and protect our hearing!
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Magnus_Bear_Legs
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It’s sad when the ads that are the worst about this problem are ads for Twitch itself. Fix this
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KingOfEtt
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I set my volume to a value that is acceptable for casual viewing. When ads play, my volume setting increases without my permission, and is particularly frustrating when the volume remains elevated after the ads finish. I suspect you cannot prevent ads from increasing the volume, but at least revert the change when the ads are done so I don't have to hear the stream from across the house.
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junesketches
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Kinda sad there haven't been any other updates from the looks of the comments below. I was recently deafened by an ad that was 10x louder than the stream at 11 at night. Please have a fix soon or close to one.
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piller860
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Please normalize the ad volume. When listening to a streamer the ad volume is joltingly loud especially when listening on headphones. Even from one ad to another ad there is a huge difference in volume that is also unpleasant. It would be even better if the add volume would be normalized to the streamers volume, to a point.
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킬러레이드
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Please patch me. The ad is too loud. The sound is so different from the streamer sound blaster. It hurts my ears when I first enter.
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sara_keith
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Is there any update to this yet? I'm in the same boat as milissaellen1966, watching @Kitboga has been my favorite thing to do during work, but I may switch over to YouTube entirely because the ads just just unreasonably loud. I recommend that the Twitch team take a listen themselves to see how awful it truly is.
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melissaellen1966
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It is unbelievably loud and if I didn't love and need @kitboga so much, I would NEVER put up with this !!!!! It is actually painful when the ads come on !!!! And why so many ads in a row that you cannot skip????!!!! So annoying. Kit should just go create a podcast platform and leave Twitch entirely.
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WolvogNerd
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I won't be using Twitch to watch content until this is fixed. I've had a lot of hearing issues because of Twitch ads and it doesn't seem like they are working on this issue or care at all.
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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