Maybe this is just my phone (and laptop), but volume control is irritating when some tracks are configured so that I need to set the volume to 70-80% and some tracks are so “naturally loud” that the lowest setting (5% ish for my phone) is distractingly loud.
On some of my tracks (especially for the classical music ones), within the same track I need to change the volume from 20% to 80% depending on what part I am listening to if I want to hear everything without killing my ear drums.
I get that it would be difficult to do anything about this for streaming or live audio since the phone doesn’t know in advance what the input will be, but for a pre-recorded mp3 file, couldn’t my phone do some digital signal processing?
Do I just have terrible electronic items and is this an issue anyone else experiences? Ot is this problem just harder to solve than I am expecting?
Try clementine/strawberry music player on your laptop. They scan your music library and apply a volume normalization value to each track.