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Audio Compressor

by vatara420

v0.1.28 Updated Jan 30, 2025 71.36KiB
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★ 4.10
102 reviews
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Description

Audio Compressor is an addon that uses dynamic range compression to make sound volumes more even. There are presets for different levels of compression. You can customize the default settings or the settings for a specific site or page. There are some sites it doesn't work with, cross-origin browser security blocks scripts from modifying audio/video from a different host. As far as I know there's no way around this. This works by using the Web Audio API to get the audio context for a page, and inserting a DynamicsCompressorNode.
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Reviews (21 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2024-08-02
WhatsThePointOf NickNameIfGoogle (AlwaysLeakMyRealName)

does this still work?

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-30
Johnr Roberts

DOES NOT WORK - KILLS CHROME SOUND. DO NOT USE. REPEAT: DO NOT USE.

★☆☆☆☆2024-01-24
Edmund Catlin

It seems like a perfectly fine compressor until the Auto-gain keeps the audio at the same peak level it was at, except now the RMS is louder. I need my browser compressor to have an Output gain so I can actually manipulate the overall level of whatever it is I needed compressed. Seems like an easy fix that I hope the devs will implement - this is an extremely useful browser compressor made useless by its own Auto-gain.

★☆☆☆☆2023-03-28
Conor

Not functioning

★☆☆☆☆2023-03-07
Wyatt Tensuda

does nothing. played around with all settings and it changed nothing lol

★☆☆☆☆2023-02-22
Jace

look, i know how to use a compressor, i work with audio on a daily basis. why does this compressor, even on the default "medium" setting, just straight-up mute what im playing? applied it to a single website and all it did was removed sound completely.

★☆☆☆☆2022-01-01
Peter Kionga-Kamau

Does nothing, and controls are cryptic.

★★☆☆☆2024-05-24
Caleb Neff

Got it because I listen to a lot of old lectures, but it doesn't work with any of the non-YouTube sites these are hosted on. Useful on normal TV streaming services, but eh, I really need it for these lectures.

★★☆☆☆2023-07-16
Kim Junk Moon

This is the only compressor with tweakable settings I could find for chrome. However, there's very poorly done auto gain that you can't disable and the makeup gain can only increase volume, so you can't lower the output. It would be an awesome extension if you could disable the auto gain, but it is unusable in it's current state.

★★☆☆☆2023-05-16
scyhte82

Why does it say it wants to read all my data on all websites when i install it but under the privacy tab it says no data will be collected? Bit sketchy, isn't it?

★★☆☆☆2022-06-24
Caleb Morris

Worked great before but now on both my browsers (firefox and chrome) all audio comes out muted

★★☆☆☆2022-06-02
Jezer Ferris

Not working on Spotify Web.

★★☆☆☆2021-12-13
Emersette Vaunt

I'm pretty sure I'm not using it properly but adjusting the sliders does nothing. There are no noticeable changes when I use this extension.

★★★☆☆2026-01-18
Yang Jiao

It works, but not working on external sources is severely limiting as half of what I'd like to use this tool for are YouTube embeds (holodex.com). It's also quite frustrating that there is no way to set individual settings for each tab, at least that I could tell. The closest workaround seems to be changing the extension to activate on click instead of for all tabs, but it's also frustration. The presets are actually helpful because I'm not familiar with how compressor parameters work. But the lack of tooltips to explain each bar is itself disappointing.

★★★☆☆2025-02-14
joshua

Breaks sound output on numerous sites. Works well in youtube.

★★★☆☆2024-11-07
Peter Danyi

Has no effect on hdtodaytv . tv

★★★☆☆2024-09-19
riki rex

I can't find a way to have it permanently engaged

★★★☆☆2024-04-10
Klaus-Dieter Fischer

It works well on most sites, but unfortunatly some sites like Bandcamp for example do not work when this is enabled. So i have to subtract a few stars from the review rating.

★★★☆☆2022-09-15
Lost Entertainment

This thing crashes more than my grandma when she tries to drive.

★★★☆☆2022-02-03
Jannik V. Korsvold

It works, but I have a couple of issues with it: - To get it to work you have to go into Chrome's extension settings and enable it "on all sites" instead of the default "on click". - Even with boost at 0 it applies automatic makeup gain. I really wish it didn't.

★★★☆☆2021-12-29
tikhiy

does not work for iframes.

Permissions (2)

Permissions

storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 0.1.28
Updated Jan 30, 2025
Size 71.36KiB
First Seen Mar 22, 2026