Hello,
what I mean by that is that whenever I download a song from youtube using yt-dlp and listen to it using mpv it always feels like I am listening to a higher quality version of the music, I don’t know it it’s just me or there is some scientific reason behind it.
Turn off “Stable Volume” in Youtube’s video settings to disable dynamic range compression.
This is a must if you listen to music on Youtube.
Volume and Dynamic Range are different things. One doesn’t effect the other.
Stable Volume just uses a form of ReplayGain to adjust volume for each track so they don’t swing so much.
It’s not doing any dynamic range compression, like some Nighttime Listening mode.
But YT definetly fucks something up when stable volume is enabled. My non audiophile ass can notice it instantly even with podcasts. It sounds significantly worse.
Tell that to the GuitarTubers whose audio get squashed to oblivion.
I can literally hear pumping clear as day in response to loud moments. It absolutely is doing dynamic range compression.
Its so obvious that I realized I was logged out of my Youtube account after a browser update and had to disable it again.