this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
41 points (95.6% liked)

Selfhosted

40344 readers
407 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
41
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by aliceblossom to c/selfhosted
 

I've poked around online and it seems like Jellyfin had (music) volume normalization added to it sometime recently. However, I'm struggling to verify that it's enabled/working. Is it something I have to enable or is it on by default? If it's on shouldn't I be able to see something like a LUFS or ReplyGain value in each song's metadata?

UPDATE: I'm not familiar with Jellyfin's git strategy, but it seems like even though the audio normalization has made it into the master branch it has NOT made it into the 10.8.z release tag/branch. I determined this by looking for the changes in Emby.Server.Implementations/Data/SqliteItemRepository.cs from the normalization PR in the current version of the file in 10.8.z and they were not present.

all 11 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Okay, so it's not in the 10.8.z series. That means it'll be in the next major release, 10.9.0

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Does volume normalization mean that we can choose the volume level finally? I cannot figure out a way to do this in 10.8.x

Jellyfin, across every single device that I have, is literally 50%+ quieter than every other app. I have to double the volume on my TV w/Chromecast for example to watch a show.

[–] eager_eagle 3 points 11 months ago

Same experience here. Jelly's volume is always 100% and I still often need to increase the TV's or OS level.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's specific to music, per the OP. As far as boosting the volume goes, it varies based on your client and devices, but on many TVs, sound bars, and AVRs, you can enable "Night Mode" and it'll turn on a compressor that basically makes all content played on said device sound closer together in volume (so less of a dramatic swing between Jellyfin volume and other stuff)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Replaygain only reduces the volume. You can't increase volume without quality loss

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'd love normalization. Hope it works for movies where explosions are 10x louder than the dialogue.

[–] eager_eagle 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I solved this last week by using Easy Effects and enabling AutoGain as an output effect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Ty for the tip! I only did a brief test but it seems to be working well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It won't. In fact, it might even make that part worse because the quieter parts would become even quieter.

What you need here is a "midnight mode" which is just a compressor; it reduces the dynamic range. Since dynamic range is an aspect of audio quality, this is not something you generally want.

Gain normalisation just ensures that different audio tracks are, on "average", the same volume so that you don't have to change volume all the time to accommodate the different mix of each song.

Spotify has these features for example under it's "Normalise volume" setting; the first two settings do gain normalisation and the high setting also adds a compressor I believe.

[–] AverageGoob 4 points 11 months ago

I can't wait for normalization to be built in. I have had to dump my music into mp3gain prior to importing it so this would save a lot of time.

As well, means I will be more open to other,higher quality, formats.