Two Limit Sound Output

[Terry Hauck]

The single level volume control does not always seem adequate. It is really irritating and damaging to my ears when certain videos make the content quiet and the commercials loud causing you to turn up and down the volume or face the possibility of ear damage.

I have been unable to find a volume control app with two limit controls for sounds levels. I would like to set a lower and upper limit so that quiet sound gets boosted and loud sounds get reduced in order to keep the sound output within the two limits. This would be really helpful. If anyone knows of any apps that do this I would be very grateful. I would be willing to pay for the app as well.

Thanks for your time.

 

[svim]

You're not alone as far as this whole problem with audio levels ranging from whispering to BOOM. What you might be looking for is something like this 'Equalizer' app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartandroidapps.equalizer
An equalizer will let you boost up lower end sounds while dampening higher end sounds so it's not quite the same as what you're asking, two separate volume controls. An option to an equalizer app is a really good multimedia player app. I like MX Player Pro (a pay for app -- there's a free version but that free version has become very ad intrusive), it has a really extensive number of options in its Settings menu allowing you to control a complicated mix of hardware and software decoding options for both video and audio. VLC (free, and no ads) doesn't have the same amount of customizing but it's still very, very good, and in your case in its Settings menu it has its own equalizer.
MX Player Pro
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.pro
VLC
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc&hl=en

If you've got an hour to kill and want to find out more about what a lot of people consider to be a decline in audio quality in today's movies, here's a nice discussion (streaming videocast and audiocast) that digs into the matter:
https://twit.tv/shows/home-theater-geeks/episodes/229