Expanded Audio Settings / Equalizer / Normalizer / Etc

[RainOfPain125]

Use Cases

Some videos are simply too quiet, even when system volume is set to max. For ex, some ASMR videos have the perfect gain/whatever and are perfectly loud enough. Other videos sadly fall short and the audio playback comes out way too quiet.

Example: this video is incredibly louder at max volume than this one at max volume.

Proposal

From what I can tell, both Grayjay settings & the YouTube plugin lack any kind of settings to do with audio playback.

You could have app-wide audio settings. And you could certainly provide a very good customizable experience with per-plugin, per-playlist, (and even?) per-video audio settings.

There are dozens of slop spyware/bloatware "volume booster" apps on the Google Playstore but I'm not interested in using Google Play. Regardless, I tried the most highly recommended audio eq app on Google Play named "Wavelet" and it failed to recognize Grajay's audio playback. At the bottom of this post is a reference to someone else experiencing the same issue.

I tried to look for a FOSS app that can provide this type of system-wide audio changes and failed to find anything. Maybe FUTO should make their own FOSS app for this, instead of only being relegated within the Grayjay app itself.

I'm not an audiophile by any means so I really don't know the correct words nor the extent that Grayjay should or could go to provide a better audio experience. I have a very narrow use case as mentioned (higher volume/gain past system limit, normalized audio levels across videos).

References

• [Future Request] Audio normalization  #853

Reference of one audio feature suggestion.

• Equalizer apps like Wavelet don't work with the app, the audio stream is not detected #41
• Register as Android Media Player #1050

Two referencss of Grayjay users experiencing issues trying to use separate apps for audio changes.

[mikeloeven]

there are also dedicated External apps for equalization I submitted a suport request under the EQ app i use and was told the player itsself needs to add support for equalization

here is the info I was given which should help the Grayjay team implement it

https://forum.powerampapp.com/peq-kb/en_us/faq/for-developers-how-to-properly-support-equalization-in-a-player-app-r1/

[Davidgm92]

I ended up here from googling to see if grayjay had a volume levelling option as I noticed one video I tried to watch was super quiet compared to watching it on the yt site. I noticed however yt has a "stable volume" option which may be doing the same job, have you tried the two videos on yt at all to see if that makes the difference? Would love to see a volume levelling option added to grayjay and I feel like this may be "easier" (I have never tried coding something like that myself) to implement than trying to increase third party app compatibility