Loudness normalization is now available for the Galaxy S24 series in the recent One UI 7 beta. The feature prevents sound from suddenly becoming too loud or too quiet while playing media. It was ...

As we come to the end of the decade, we turn to one of the more dramatic changes we've heard in music over those 10 years: It seems to have gotten louder. We're talking about compression here, the ...

Audio/video experience on computers has come a long way. The tech involved has advanced greatly so as to bring us as close to living these experiences as possible. But there are a few things that ...

The 'loudness' of our thoughts -- or how we imagine saying something -- influences how we judge the loudness of real, external sounds. The "loudness" of our thoughts -- or how we imagine saying ...

Audio quality can make or break a piece of content. Editors always need to remember that even if the video has mind-blowing visuals, poor audio quality will detract from the audience’s viewing ...

LET’S TALK ABOUT LOUDNESS! Yelling is loud! That fashionable guy on the train blasting music into his ears? His headphones are loud! Loudness sounds good and feels good, and unfortunately, it’s ...

John Kean explains how the xHE-AAC codec utilizes metadata to shift dynamic range control from content producers to listeners ...

JJ? Who’s JJ? JJ is James D. Johnston, one of the major players in codec development and psychoacoustic research, with a distinguished career at Bell Labs, AT&T Labs Research, Microsoft and, currently ...

The loudest album of 2010 was almost certainly Sleigh Bells' acclaimed Treats, a collection of songs with the volume and distortion of nearly every element pushed into the red. Drums became blasts of ...

I've played with it and read the reviews about what it's supposed to do. Yet I've yet to find the magic behind the loudness control. I've tried using it at low volumes in the office to get a bit more ...