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CALM Act for Radio Broadcasts ? ? ?

TheRover

TheRover

I listen to radio through bluetooth and an android smartphone.

I find it very annoying to have to keep adjusting the volume as the signal goes from the radio program to the commericals and announcements, which always seem louder, and then, back to the program, which always seem quieter than the commericals.

And because I'm listnening with the bluetooth ear bud, that volume difference is especially annoying.

Is there there anything afoot to get this annoyance addressed for internet radio listeners ? ? ? It will obviously take Federal action, as the industry will not act on this without it.
 
It's not over the airwaves, so the federal government has no oversight on it.

The FCC makes it very clear they do not "govern" the internet.

Find a station that does a better job of monitoring modulation, thats the easiest thing to do.
 
Keep in mind that many stations are not streaming their on the air signal 100% of the time. They are using "ad insertion" programs from third party vendors or the streaming company itself so they have no control over those levels. I can see those folks adding a db or two to their ads, and I can also see you finding a new stream to listen to! As good as some of those programs are getting to be, I think you will still hear a little pop or click as they cut away from the stations stream and plug in their spots and vice-versa when they rejoin.
 
And now digital broadcasting plants and the method that spots are delivered to broadcasters compound the problem. In the old analog stations tapes were transferred to the final broadcast medium in real time and an operator could "ride gain" on everything that was to be broadcast. Now everything is transferred over the internet as files that just get transferred around the broadcast facility. The volume is set when the producer creates the files that are sent out to stations.

It's like Youtube. The video creators set the volume of the videos and some are louder than others and when you watch several videos in a row you might have some louder of softer than others.

New digital broadcast facilities don't have the control over volume like they used to. I know, I work in TV and we deal with this every day. We have to contact productions companies all the time to have volume problems corrected and re-delivered.
 
joebtsflk1 said:
Maybe there's a software solution that could be developed to address this problem at the receiver...
Click to expand...

Actually, we do have a device in the signal chain that can watch for volume peaks in the encoded audio and reduce them slightly. But it's nowhere near as effective as the analog equipment we can no longer use.
 
Download an equalizer app for your phone. That should have a volume limiter on it or some sort of compression setting. As others have pointed out, the signal you're listening to probably wasn't run through the processor.

Stop expecting the government to fix every problem you have.
 
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