- An adjustment of the “coherent volume” is identified in Youtube music
- This should prevent tracks from being extremely different in their volume levels
- Not everyone gets the functionality right away
Having a track that crashes at an unexpected volume level – or being much quieter than what has been preceded – is not an excellent listening experience, and it is something that YouTube aims to prevent with its latest functionality update.
As the 9TO5GOOGLE team pointed out, a new option entitled “Coherent volume” is now going to Youtube musical applications for Android and iOS. The idea is that all your tracks, no matter where you get them, will use a similar volume range.
Noisy songs will always be noisy and silent songs will always be silent of course, but this should help with the pieces that have been recorded or converted to significantly different volume levels, so your ears know more or less what to expect.
The functionality stems from the “Stable volume” functionality which has been available on different YouTube applications for some time. This is also something that you can find in the range of Spotify applications, where it is called “Audio standardization”.
Appearing slowly
It seems that the coherent volume function is deployed quite slowly, or perhaps simply tested with a limited group of people for the moment. The 9TO5GOOGLE team saw it on some of their phones, but it did not show up for the Android team Authority.
If you don’t have it yet, you just need to be patient. To check if you have it, open the Youtube music application for Android or iOS, then press your profile photo (top right) and ParametersSo choose Reading (Android) or Reading and restrictions (iOS).
Here in the United Kingdom, I cannot see it on my Android phone or my iPhone, so don’t be surprised if he has not yet presented himself for you. According to 9TO5google, you need version 8.15 of the Youtube Music application, then check if updates are pending.
This is certainly a feature that users of Youtube music wanted, with Threads Reddit dates back years on the subject. There has not yet been an official announcement on this Google subject, but we will let you know if we appear.
