Apple Music Is anyone else's Dolby Atmos streaming quiet sounding?

[iamchris1990yal]

I was listening to an album where some songs were Atmos enabled and some were still standard audio files.

The volume difference between the Atmos tracks and standard tracks was very noticeable. I had to turn the Atmos version to maximum volume to hear anything decent. Then it went to the next song (standard streaming) and my eardrums nearly blew out it was so loud.

Not loving the difference in audio levels on this. Anyone else noticing the same thing at all?

 

[seezar]

Enable sound check in the music settings. That will normalize all the audio.

 

[cmChimera]

I agree. I turned on Sound Check, but usually that just means I have a quiet stereo track, that I can't get back to normal sound levels without turning off sound check.

 

[richard371]

any disadvantage to sound check?

 

[seezar]

I agree. I turned on Sound Check, but usually that just means I have a quiet stereo track, that I can't get back to normal sound levels without turning off sound check.

But every track you play will always have the same volume as other tracks you play and you can just raise the volume more with leaving it enabled.

 

[seezar]

any disadvantage to sound check?

Not really, the volume normalization won’t effect the quality of the music, it just adjusts the overall volume of the tracks you play so they all play at the same volume level.

 

[cmChimera]

any disadvantage to sound check?

Yes it makes the Stereo song quiet.

 

[iamchris1990yal]

Yes it makes the Stereo song quiet.

Yeah I found the same thing. Not really a great fix! So disappointed! Un-balanced audio levels from song-to-song is such a massive pet peeve and I was really looking forward to the Atmos addition!

 

[richard371]

I dont even think Atmos music sounds good. If anything I prefer it off.

 

[riggles]

But every track you play will always have the same volume as other tracks you play and you can just raise the volume more with leaving it enabled.

True, but this is only within the Music app. So if you go from listening to songs there and then switch to watching Youtube or other media in the browser or another app, the volume will jump up. I've found with SoundCheck on, the Music app typical output level is around 3dB lower then media playback from other apps. That's enough to make you reach for the volume knob, especially when wearing headphones.

It's not a huge deal for me personally, as I already use Rogue Amoeba's SoundSounce app, which gives me per-app output level control. So I can balanced the Music apps output with other apps. But that's besides the point.

 

[seezar]

True, but this is only within the Music app. So if you go from listening to songs there and then switch to watching Youtube or other media in the browser or another app, the volume will jump up. I've found with SoundCheck on, the Music app typical output level is around 3dB lower then media playback from other apps. That's enough to make you reach for the volume knob, especially when wearing headphones.

It's not a huge deal for me personally, as I already use Rogue Amoeba's SoundSounce app, which gives me per-app output level control. So I can balanced the Music apps output with other apps. But that's besides the point.

Yeah, thats a good point and something to keep in my mind. It does solve the issue for music listening though and I'm personally not bothered by adjusting the volume as needed if I'm going to use a different source, I'd rather have to do that than have to adjust the volume when listening to different music tracks.