Why would you even bother with radio at all if you have to jump through these hoops to make it tolerable?
Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking
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Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking
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This is great. I wish there was a way to limit the volume on Alexa devices for different services, especially Spotify. I like to fall asleep to podcasts, but it wakes my girlfriend up when the commercials start (especially iHeartRadio commercials!), so I either have it so low I can barely hear or I have to fall asleep to rain/ocean sounds.
You could just pay for premium
I actually have the family premium subscription.
Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking
#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is great. I wish there was a way to limit the volume on Alexa devices for different services, especially Spotify. I like to fall asleep to podcasts, but it wakes my girlfriend up when the commercials start (especially iHeartRadio commercials!), so I either have it so low I can barely hear or I have to fall asleep to rain/ocean sounds.
If you pay, does it still force commercials on you?
Yes, they are within the podcast stream itself. The worst ones are in the content created for iHeartRadio that makes its way to Spotify.
Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking
#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is great. I wish there was a way to limit the volume on Alexa devices for different services, especially Spotify. I like to fall asleep to podcasts, but it wakes my girlfriend up when the commercials start (especially iHeartRadio commercials!), so I either have it so low I can barely hear or I have to fall asleep to rain/ocean sounds.
why not just pay $10/month? sleep must worth more than that
I'm on the family premium subscription. These are ads within the podcast itself, unfortunately.
Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking
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Adblocking seems very distinct from theft to me, but thankfully even that is irrelevant with SponsorBlock. Those sponsorships don't pay via impression and only the channel themselves could really try to track impressions anyway. You're free to use SponsorBlock and save so much time, brain space, and frustration, without worrying about altering the creator's pay at all. I don't see why you wouldn't do it. At this poin…
It may not alter their pay immediately but if enough people start using SponsorBlock, it seems like a logical conclusion that the sponsors will see their ROIs drop and will start paying less for sponsored content.
Only if you were actually going to be influenced to buy the thing in the first place. And it's not like the various bits of advertising from a sponsorship go entirely unnoticed in many circumstances, with various requirements to add text ads to video descriptions and pinned comments.
If you're looking to be actually informed - rather than manipulated - you're not missing out on much with SponsorBlock.
Not to mention I've never actually seen anything both potentially useful and novel-to-me show up in a YouTube sponsorship anyway. It mostly seems to be full of companies with established models looking for ways to boost their adspend even higher after they've tapped out other avenues.
Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking
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LUFS limiting :) But you're right. It will probably affect the music especially sinxe it seems that LUFS is not an instantaneous measure.
Would LUFs limiting work across all types of speakers?
Probably not. Although it might be easily implemented in hardware, I think most solutions currently are software.
The crux is to pick the loudness threshold and the adequate time-window for Real Time analysis/processing.