Suedkiez
May 3, 2025, 7:40am
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It should. There was a known issue in 2019,
Hey everyone – we were not ignoring this request, and we actually spent a bunch of time getting this right with Qobuz before we released our integration in Roon 1.6.
In order for volume leveling to work in Roon, Qobuz needs to analyze each file in their service and provide the leveling data to us. This is a big project, and we know that Qobuz has been working on processing their music catalog over the last year.
After seeing this feedback recently, we did some investigation to get a sense of h…
Core Machine (Operating system/System info/Roon build number)
MacOS Catalina; Roon build 475
Network Details (Including networking gear model/manufacturer and if on WiFi/Ethernet)
wired ethernet; optical fibre
Audio Devices (Specify what device you’re using and its connection type - USB/HDMI/etc.)
RoPieee with USB DAC
Description Of Issue
For some albums volume levelling of Qobuz albums already seems to work (Hurray). However, it always applies track normalization, even when in the settin…
but that was fixed in 2020:
Volume leveling works for Qobuz content when set to “Album” or “Auto”
Clearly the expectation is that it should work:
Hi David, the project to back-process tracks for volume levelling data was completed by Qobuz quite some time ago and they provide it for all new content as well. If you turn on volume levelling, you can see what offsets are being applied by Roon. However, at present, we don’t display dynamic range info in the same way that we do for local content.
Not for me / in my usage. However, even after the mentioned fix there were at least two similar reports from users, which I don’t think were fully understood:
No idea what is going on if I’m honest.
I never noticed this to be an issue until recently when I started getting big jumps in volume even when levelling applied in Roon. When I checked the signal path, levelling was zero and that’s when I figured it was something wrong.
Old releases don’t have this problem.
Maybe it takes a while for Qobuz to provide this info to Roon or scan their catalogue but I have releases from one week ago and still no volume levelling.
There may be specific cases where it does not work, I found this from May 2024, not sure if this was fixed:
Hi @Stanley_Hall ,
There’s a known bug with volume leveling, but the trigger is slightly more nuanced than initiating playback via Play command vs. Roon Radio.
The distinction here is actually between the library object and the non-library object of the same album. When you add/remove an Album from the library, Roon no longer properly applies volume leveling to the non-library version. This is also true, by all indications, when the library remains in the library but you queue the non-library o…