• kalkulat@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    That needs to be done with a combination of hardware and OS. The hardware needs to allow setting the maximum analog audio voltage delivered at the audio outputs. The OS needs to let users make that choice and then enforce it.

    Of course, more highly-compressed audio will still sound louder. For that you’d need to be able to measure the average delivered voltage and compensate for it. Also easy to do in hardware. Audio has always been an after-thought in consumer electronics (since TV’s came along anyway) and computers have continued that tradition.