People struggle with audio that swings between too quiet and too loud
Listeners report having to adjust volume between quiet and loud sections, and one listener with tinnitus says loud podcast ads worsen their ringing. Livestreamers and audio creators face a related challenge: keeping levels balanced or applying gentle automatic gain control, while video editors ask for simpler ways to normalize audio without re-encoding video. The evidence points to a shared loudness-consistency problem, but across distinct listening, streaming, and editing workflows.
For podcast and video listeners, livestreamers, and audio creators. Mentioned from Oct 2023 to Sep 2026 on Bluesky and Hacker News.
9 different people described this problem in 9 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 3.0/10
- Pain
- 5.1/10
- Frequency
- 8.3/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.6/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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I have tinnitus so the ads being so loud can increase the ringing in my ears massively
I hate it when I’m watching Netflix and I constantly have to turn the volume up and down to hear the quiet parts, but not get my ears blasted off by the loud parts
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