- A ‘consistent volume’ setting is spotted in YouTube music
- It should prevent traces from being very different in their volume level
- Not everyone gets the feature right away
Having a track that comes down to an unexpectedly high volume level – or being much quieter than what has come before – is not a good listening experience, and that’s something YouTube Music aims to prevent with its latest functional update.
As was discovered by the team at 9to5Google, a new option called ‘consistent volume’ is now the way to YouTube Music apps for Android and iOS. The idea is that all your tracks, no matter where you got them, will use a similar volume area.
High songs will still be tall and quiet songs will still be quiet, of course, but it should help with numbers recorded or converted at noticeably different volume levels so your ears know more or less what to expect.
The feature follows from the ‘Stable Volume’ feature that has been available across different YouTube apps for some time. It is also something you can find inside Spotify’s series of apps, where it is called ‘sound normalization’.
Slowly appear
It seems that the consistent volume function is rolling out quite slowly, or maybe just being tested with a limited group of people for now. The 9to5Google team has seen it on some of their phones, but it has not appeared for the Android Authority team.
If you don’t have it yet, just be patient. To check if you have it, open the YouTube Music app for Android or iOS, then press your profile pic (top right) and SettingsThen select Playback (Android) or Playback and restrictions (iOS).
Here in the UK I can’t see it on either my Android phone or my iPhone, so don’t be surprised if it hasn’t appeared yet to you. According to 9to5Google, you need version 8.15 of the YouTube Music app, so check to see if updates are waiting.
It is definitely a feature that YouTube music users have wanted, with Reddit threads that go back year on the subject. There has not yet been an official message about this from Google, but we will tell you if you are displayed.
