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Script for YouTube Loudness Normalization

Browser Name: Chrome

Browser Version: 59.0.3071.104 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro

Software Type: Tampermonkey

Problem Description: I need a scrip to put in Tampermonkey to disable the YouTube loudness normalization

I second this
The only addon that can also work as a script can be found here:
https://github.com/ParticleCore/Particle/wiki/Download

But all I want is just to remove normalization
The code is there

May I ask why this is desirable? The normalization that YouTube is doing isn't really anything more than an invisible behind-the-scenes volume knob － it's not doing anything naughty like hard-limiting or dynamic range compression.

In other words, if you just manually turned up your own volume knob to compensate for the reduced volume, the end result would be completely identical compared to if the normalization was disabled and you didn't manually touch your volume knob.


(this is of course assuming that a 32bit float audio processing chain is used, but that's the default on modern versions of Windows and Android and presumably on iOS, Mac OS X, and Linux as well).