Reviews for Audio Compressor
Audio Compressor by vatara
Review by Firefox user 17628591
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefox user 17628591, 3 years agoIt helps for sure, I needed it to listen to a round table with 4 participants who each have a different level varying from 10 to 15 DB (impression that the velocity is twice as strong or half as weak).
What is difficult is the setting without a VU meter, in order to "see" the lowest level to use it as an "uncompressed" reference, and to be able to "align" the compression of the strongest signals with the weakest. This would avoid "compressing" the signal too much, which would avoid increasing the background noise with the reverberations.
One thing that's missing is the signage and it's hard to understand, for example, if the ratio is 2:1-3:1 or 4:1 or if the attack is in milliseconds or whatever.
I managed to adjust it by ear and I don't need it often so it's fine for me, but for those who aren't too used to it, by reading the comments it seem it's not very easy for many.
It was a good idea to make this plugin, so thanks to the developer. Good job.
What is difficult is the setting without a VU meter, in order to "see" the lowest level to use it as an "uncompressed" reference, and to be able to "align" the compression of the strongest signals with the weakest. This would avoid "compressing" the signal too much, which would avoid increasing the background noise with the reverberations.
One thing that's missing is the signage and it's hard to understand, for example, if the ratio is 2:1-3:1 or 4:1 or if the attack is in milliseconds or whatever.
I managed to adjust it by ear and I don't need it often so it's fine for me, but for those who aren't too used to it, by reading the comments it seem it's not very easy for many.
It was a good idea to make this plugin, so thanks to the developer. Good job.
78 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Spagettifritz, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by aecletec, 19 days agoWorking great across many sites including youtube, twitch, spotify etc. Hope it continues to as it has great features like saving per-page settings and more customisable settings.
- Rated 5 out of 5by randomrocket, 25 days agoUpdate:
For anyone experiencing the below issue, if you're using FireFox you'll have to change the "Permissions" for Twitch in your browser.
If you go to Twitch.tv's main site, look at your URL/address line and you should see 3 icons: a shield, a lock, and... another icon. Don't know what it's supposed to represent. Click the 3rd icon and you should see an option for "Autoplay" and a drop-down menu. If you click the drop-down, select "Allow Audio and Video" and this will resolve the issue. Found this in a reddit thread and thought it might be useful to others.
Original Review:
Only giving this 1 star to get the developer's attention.
As of this post there seems to be an issue with this plugin and the website twitch.tv. I am unable to get audio while this plugin is enabled. When disabled audio plays fine through streams or VODs. Re-enabling the plugin, no sound is played (though the tab does note there is audio playing). Is there a known issue with Twitch and this plugin?
Otherwise, this is a 5 star plugin that replaced my previous audio balancing plugin after support was pulled.
Will update this review when addressed.Developer response
posted 5 days agoThe only problem I'm aware of with Twitch is clips not working because of this issue: https://github.com/vatara/firefox-audio-compressor/issues/2 where videos from a different host get muted by the browser. That's out of my control.
Other than that, it works fine on Twitch. You might have another plugin, like FFZ, that is also trying to compress the audio and it's conflicting, not sure what else it could be.
If you have more details you could post in this thread https://github.com/vatara/firefox-audio-compressor/issues/20 and I could try to replicate it. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15030857, 3 months agoWorks on some sites like youtube and netflix, on others it either doesnt compress at all or usually just makes audio silent
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tweedle, 5 months agoit actually WORKS!!! I had a compressor built-in to an "Improve YouTube" extension on Opera, but it wasn't made for Firefox.. and I couldn't fins ANY that would work on YT, let alone ALL the audio... but then I found this and it works GREAT! And I don't have to refresh any tabs or restart the browser either, it worked right away - THANK YOU DEV TEAM!!!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19003302, 5 months agoWorks great with Firefox, but not Chrome or Edge. But Firefox has other deficiencies. I wish I could find one browser that does everything, but at present I have to run atleast two simultaneously.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17528904, 5 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18896974, 7 months agoIt literally has no effect whatsoever, it is literally nothing.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Chills Multiplying, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by vignesh, 7 months agoWorks really good. Looks like it has regular updates as well.
- Rated 5 out of 5by e@fd, 8 months agothe icon doesn't always update to show the correct on/off status. also wish the enable toggle is bigger.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alessandro, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mahmoud Elmasry, 10 months agoAmazing tool, works perfectly, compatible with most websites, and remembers settings for each website which is an amazing feature.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Taffernakus, a year agoIf like me you struggled to hear properly the vocals while watching Netflix, then this is your miracle add-on extension.
An absolute must for any Firefox user!
This Audio compression extension add-on works amazingly well on a DELL XPS 13 Late 2018 (9370) with the default audio drivers installed.
I could not believe how good these made the built-in stereo speakers sound.
Phenomenal work on the DEV's side!
Get it while you can and mess around with the parameters until you get the desired outcome. - Rated 4 out of 5by Shyboy, a year ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by some guy, a year agoWorks, but prevents my computer from sleeping on Windows 11 with a paused video open
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16275961, a year agoPerfect, when listening to movies online this app lowers the volume of spikes, that is, weapon, loud music, explosions, etc., while keeping the dialogues at the same level. And also it has a functionality to boost sound, which makes it even better for audios with very loud sound.
- Rated 4 out of 5by AppleMango, a year agoEnabling this extension completely disables sound in some websites (like factorio.com). The sound only works when I open the video in a new tab. I have tried the 'none' preset too, but the sound only works when I disable the extension (either using the checkbox or using firefox). EDIT: Github issues shows that this is a Firefox problem, not an extension one. This problem can easily be fixed by disabling it for troublesome sites.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14565121, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hadouken, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13477423, 2 years agoThe button doesn't even show-up on my toolbar and I don't see it listed when I choose customize. How do I get it to appear?