Native sound compression please

[Sam_Adams]

Have you noticed how some posts on news aggregators have audio gain at 100%? You browse one video with mumblers so you turn up your sound a bit then hit the next one that's at 100% gain and it blows out your eardrums. With the rise of TikTok this is happening much more frequently.

The fix for this is sound compression. It lower sounds above a certain level. There are extensions that do this but none of them work well because they are not allowed to change cross-domain audio sources. This affects many sites since pulling video content from other sources is very ubiquitous now.

[Jon]

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[Sam_Adams]

So along with compression normalization is needed too:

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Compression is used to lower the dynamic range between the softest and the loudest sounds in an audio file, evening everything out. Normalization, on the other hand, increases the volume of a file until the loudest peak is at 0dB.

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