Hello there @Frank.Vermoesen, yeah seems to be an issue with the normalization feat. 

Apparently if you listen without normalizing it works better. 

Hi Yula
Yes that’s obvious, if you disable volume normalization then the problem with volume normalization disappears 

But that's not the point I suppose. Is this something that the developers will look into?

By the way, I have meanwhile noticed that the problem also occurs in HQ audio mode. So the problem is not really related to HIFI mode.

Anybody home? Does anybody even care?

Hi @Frank.Vermoesen do you think you could make a video reproducing the problem, because I created a playlist with the songs you mentioned (very good selection by the way ) and tested on web, desktop app and iPhone, either in HiFi and HQ, and wasn’t able to notice any changes at the beginning of the second song.
I could definitely pass the feedback to our devs, but would be better if I can show them how did you reproduce the issue on your side for them to investigate.
Thanks for your help on this and apologies for the inconvenience.
 

Hi Jaime

Thanks for the reply and for watching into this.

I initially noticed the problem on my different Samsung Android phones (did you test an Android device too?). 

Anyway, now that you mentioned the web player, I also did the same test with the web player on a Windows 10 pc and guess what, the problem occurs every time here too!
So it really seems like a crossplatform software problem.

Strange that you can't simulate the problem, so here are a few video recordings.

The following video shows the Deezer webplayer, the volume blast is at 00:15 (playtime in your videoplayer, not the Deezer playtime in the recorded video)
https://1drv.ms/v/s!As5rbPDrShKsqCf3la3JXPQ8QYbw?e=Yk4p9Q

In the next video I made the audio visible, the blast is (audible and now also clearly visible) at 00:18
https://1drv.ms/v/s!As5rbPDrShKsqCYNayBx30IJLTJm?e=2ueNLe

In case you still miss the “blast”, here it is in the 2nd video:

Don’t forget, when you do a test, the transition from song 1 to song 2 should be played automatically, DON’T skip manually because then you won’t here the volume blast when song 2 starts.

Another tip: listen with your headphones or a decent bluetooth speaker or sometething, not through your phone or laptop speaker.

Oh, and I hear the problem with other combinations of songs too, not just the 2 songs in this playlist. It seems like the problem is clearly noticeable every time a quiet song is followed by a loud song.

Too bad no one seems to care about (or even notices) this problem. Here's another example of a horrible volume normalization. Play these 2 songs one after the other. This time it's not only at the start of a song, but throughout the whole song that the volume normalization is totally off.

https://deezer.page.link/YgUFLMMnS3E8s6Cg7

https://deezer.page.link/i3BKGZ7pAgQNTTDSA

Today a new version for Android was available, and we got .... an improved SongCatcher ...
Really? That's not what I was waiting for...

Why not put a little more effort into a decently working audio player instead of trivialities or bad imitations of features that other apps already have and do much better?

After all you’re a music service.

Some suggestions for improvement:

• a decent working volume normalization
• crossfader like Spotify had for ages, Apple Music is even 2 steps ahead with their automatic crossfader instead of a time based one (on Android). Avoiding silences between songs is a feature we already had on desktop in the 90s!
• playback in the highest quality available when on Wi-Fi, even when a lower quality was previously downloaded.

I mostly listen to mixes and I like Deezer Flow, but the lame audio player makes Deezer virtually useless to me.