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Normalize audio

Quiet recordings brought up and loud ones held back, to the level podcasts and streaming use.

This one runs on your credits. Quiet recordings brought up and loud ones held back, to the level podcasts and streaming use.

Sign in and get 500 free credits every month — enough for many files — then drop the file in the workbench and run normalize audio there.

Pick a file below to see exactly what it would cost.

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More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.About the extension

How to normalize audio

  1. Drop the audio files.
  2. Pick the output format.
  3. Press Normalize and download.

What happens to your file

The loudness of the whole file is measured the way broadcasters do (EBU R128) and the gain adjusted so it lands at −16 LUFS with peaks held under −1.5 dB — the same recipe podcast hosts and streaming services apply on upload.

It is a level change, not a compressor: quiet passages stay quiet relative to loud ones. A file already at the target comes back unchanged apart from the encode.

Questions

Why do my recordings sound quieter than everything else?

Phones and recorders leave headroom; players do not turn it up. Normalising to the common target makes yours match.

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "audio.normalize",
    "options": {
      "format": "mp3"
    }
  }'

The same operation, audio.normalize — EBU R128 loudness (-16 LUFS) — the broadcast answer to "too quiet". Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.