Commercials? Laughing in Jellyfin, ahrr!
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They are repeating the cable/broadcast ad service network playbook. All this shit has already been regulated on normal TV, and wasn't an issue with streaming because before, streaming didn't have ads like this. Now that they've normalized paying monthly fees AND being lasted with ads, the regulation has to play catch-up again. This should be something the FCC regulates, but good luck in this administration.
I sure as hell did. I'm over here trying to watch something while also being a fuckin DJ.
If you encounter a streaming service that is still playing excessively loud ads, the right path is to file a complaint here: https://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-business-or-company .
Back in ye'old days when you paid for a streaming service and you didn't have a bunch of commercials...
Half of lemmy who have either been pirating or freebooting since the mid 90's:
I have managed to cut ads out of my life so completely that I am legitimately offended by it
After my parents quit smoking, they ended up with this, IDK, "born again nonsmoker" attitude where they were completely disgusted by the smell of cigarette smoke and couldn't stand to be around it at all.
I have the same attitude about ads.
Doesn't smoking suppress your sense of smell? I wonder if they couldn't smell how bad it is while they were still smoking.
When I go to the office instead of being on my home network with a pihole, and I go to show a website in a meeting, I'm just embarrassed by what shows up because the site didn't look anything like that when I was looking at it previously at home. I legitimately don't know how people actually use websites that are 80% ads
I was fortunate enough to have some creative input into our browser policies at work. Needless to say, Adnauseum ublock origin and some password safe extensions got added to the allow list
Ya, I get that. I have to stop myself from being weird and overly aggressive about it when watching tv at a friend's house.
Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you!
why edit in the word commercial but not change "the" to "a"?
I'm doing my part.
Every time I go to my moms place and see what they put up with on a fire stick, it makes me fucking sick.
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Jeez, this has been going on for so long that parodies of these sorts of malicious practices are nearly a decade old. It’s about time.
Only a decade? I recall legal action surrounding this shit in the '90s.
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Yeah, sometimes California does some brilliant shit like this, but then newsom does some stupid shit.
As a Californian, fuck Newsom.
We do have common sense laws that lead the nation in a lot of areas, but especially automobile safety and pollution. Manufacturers don't want to make a California specific version of their product, so it becomes the de facto standard for cars in the US.
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Okay, so I have no idea about streaming services, but commercials on broadcast TV never had the volume increased but the compression.
(I love getting lost in details so apologies if any of this comes off condescending.) Compression works by making the quieter parts louder, without distorting the louder parts.
THINK of a SENTENCE where SOME of the WORDS are LOUD and OTHER words are QUIETER.
compression works by squishing down all the loud parts, then bringing everything back up to full volume, so the previous sentence would become:
THINK OF A SENTENCE WHERE SOME OF THE WORDS ARE LOUD AND OTHER WORDS ARE QUIETER.
Now, the loud parts didn’t become louder. What happened is that the quieter parts got louder. You lose the dynamic, but gain volume. If you think it would just be exhausting, you’re correct - even at low volumes, you can get a sense of ear fatigue when audio is heavily compressed.
Now, if you want to know why movies have quiet parts where you can’t hear shit and loud parts that are way louder, this is called dynamics. Artistically, you very much want this for the same reason you want quiet parts and loud parts in classical music. If everything is constantly loud, the dramatic moments won’t feel as impactful.
“But wait, I don’t enjoy that, I like having my TV at a reasonable volume!” Yup, me too. It’s fucking annoying. Mixing is done often on high quality speakers, loud volume, so you can get every detail. Most home setups dont have that nuance, and most people don’t care. Until execs can actually get proven that they’ll make more money by having consistent compression, you’re shit out of luck. You’ll probably have to get your own compression, either through software or hardware.
Source: used to work in sound engineering.
I thought you were going to get into lossy audio compression codecs. I don’t see ads but when I do my ears are like “what in the 128 Kbps MP3 is going on here?”
Audio compression is very different than file compression.
Thank you for giving the explanation so I didn’t have to (used to work in broadcast TV including sound and station engineer)
This.
Source: i still work in sound engineering. This is all about compression. Commercials are brickwalled to shit.
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When you use so much ad blocking that you didnt even realize these things had commercial breaks
The first thing my wife and I did this morning when we woke up was turn on streaming shit and check to see if they actually did this...
We of course live in California and I am happy to report that the first commercial that played was loud as hell. My wife immediately started trying to find the phone numbers so that we could call and complain lol
They even figured out a way to get around decibel laws.
Human hearing is most sensitive within a certain range where we disproportionately hear those sounds louder than other frequencies. Advertisers would boost that range up and cut frequencies elsewhere to lower the average energy in the audio wave to be compliant with advertisement decibel ratings. The perceived sound could be multiple times louder than the intended limit.
Compression is the way this happened. Commercials are HEAVILY compressed, and shows aren't.
I had no idea they were turning up the volume
WHAT? adjusts my hearing aid
Weird. I usually find Netflix quiet compared to other services. I don’t know why.
My parents forced us to mute TV commercials as a kid and I'm so thankful they did.
Hulu used to do it. idk if or when they stopped. But it was the primary motivator for me to buy the no-, commercial package.
(That was till I swore off and went full pirate a few years ago.)
But honesty, I never put two and two together.
They almost certainly were doing it to ramp up the unpleasantness of the commercials to push people to pay more to avoid them.
Fuckers
I especially hate this with music streaming services. They tryna blow out my speakers!!
My jellyfin does this too. I find the commercials are about 2x louder than the content
Your Jellyfin has ads? Why did you put them in your library?
Now that you mention it, I actually see 4x ads now
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