Google’s historical past with music companies is sort of as convoluted and irritating as its historical past with messaging. Nevertheless, issues have gotten calmer (and slower) ever since Google ceded music to the YouTube division. The YouTube Music app has its share of annoyances, to make certain, however it’s getting a long-overdue characteristic that customers have been requesting for ages: constant quantity.
Listening to a single album from starting to finish is more and more uncommon on this age of limitless entry to music. As your playlist wheels from one style or period to the following, the inevitable vibe shifts could be grating. Totally different tracks can have wildly totally different volumes, which could be surprising and doubtlessly damaging to your ears in case you’ve acquired your quantity up for a ballad solely to be hit with a heavy guitar riff after the break.
The gist of constant quantity easy—it normalizes quantity throughout tracks, making the amount roughly the identical. Constant quantity builds on a characteristic from the YouTube app known as “secure quantity.” When Google launched secure quantity for YouTube, it famous that the characteristic would repeatedly alter quantity all through the video. Due to that, it was disabled for music content material on the platform.