After being out there on cellular for a while, YouTube’s “steady quantity” characteristic is now increasing to Android TV and Google TV units.
Steady quantity is a characteristic designed to enhance your listening expertise with a wide selection of YouTube content material. In easy phrases, it really works by robotically adjusting the quantity of movies you watch. This implies you shouldn’t want to achieve in your distant to show the quantity down for loud movies or flip it up when somebody is talking too quietly in a video. Google’s official assist pages states that it helps “cut back jarring variations in quantity.”
Steady quantity does this by constantly balancing the quantity vary between quiet and loud components of a YouTube video. In idea, this could create a extra constant listening expertise irrespective of the content material. You will have seen that not all audio on YouTube is combined evenly, so the “Steady quantity” operate ought to assist enhance your viewing expertise.
We’ve noticed the steady quantity toggle on numerous Google TV and Android TV units operating the most recent YouTube v4.40.303 launch. You must see the brand new toggle in the event you faucet the gear icon when a video is enjoying. Steady quantity is turned on by default, however you’ll be able to simply disable it within the app settings in the event you choose extra management over the quantity or discover it alters the meant audio expertise of sure movies.
This impact may not be helpful in all conditions, similar to when listening to music or utilizing an in depth audio combine. As a result of lack of devoted YouTube Music app for Android TV, the toggle continues to be current when enjoying music on YouTube. Nonetheless, steady quantity is a neat device for informal listening on YouTube, significantly for podcasts or movies the place constant sound isn’t at all times assured.
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