Compression of Audio During Playback (Not using compression feature)

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Issue description:

I had a feeling for a few weeks now that my music sounded… different. I thought it sounded over-compressed, but I wasn’t certain. Maybe I was listening to a crappy remaster without realizing it.

Today, I confirmed that the audio is definitely being compressed to the wazoo. The track that really sealed the deal for me was “Come Out and Play” by the Offspring (Epitaph, 1994). The ambient reverb in the drum room is way too forward it the mix; it’s as loud as the actual drums. I’m streaming audio using Navidrome, and I believe I have my settings configured to stream in its original 320 kbps format without additional reverb or compression effects applied. I tested to see if the source audio was the problem by streaming from the Navidrome web client on my phone–no reverb problem there, so it must be caused by Symfonium, right? What I can’t figure is if it’s some sort of compression effect or data compression to accommodate a lower bitrate (contrary to how I have my settings configured). What’s going on, you think?

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From the logs you are transcoding to 320 opus so it’s not original file.

And you are using the AutoEQ feature, try to disable the EQ engine in case your device had an update that broke it.

It’s hard to tell from a feeling what it could be.

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I didn’t mention in my original post, but I did try disabling AutoEQ–that’s not the issue.

Curious that it’s transcoding to OPUS… What settings should I check to ensure that my files are not transcoded?

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Not just autoeq the whole EQ.

And in playback/transcoding.

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Hmph. I reset my audio device profile, and that seemed to solve the problem. I’m not sure why manually disabling each component of the DSP didn’t solve the problem before, but whatever. The problem seems to return again when I try to use the AutoEQ feature, so I suspect that’s where the problem lies.

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There’s an option to reset EQ on device change, it can help on some devices, maybe it happens when you change profiles between multiple BT devices ?