Blackhat SEO – Esrun

So quite a few years ago, I blogged about how I wished Youtube had some kind of playlist feature, so I could line up a bunch of videos and have them play one after another. Thankfully, we now have that feature.

What I really want now is a volume enhancement option which allows you to hear a volume increased (and perhaps basic audio enhancement) version of the video.

They already offer up different versions of the video, based on quality – 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, which I assume are being stored on their servers as 4 different video files. It would be nice if they could create another version of the file (for each quality level) which has had it’s audio enhanced and volume increased.

There are far too many videos on Youtube which have low volume audio. Based on the thousands (maybe millions) of comments from other viewers, I’m obviously not the only one suffering from this annoyance. It’s not such a problem for those using desktop computers with powered speakers but us laptop users are pretty much boned.

So, Dear Youtube, please give us volume enhancement options. Thank you.