playback loudness is supposed to measure the “amplitude” of the current song measured from 0-1000 as stated in the developer documentation.
i have encountered a strange, common inconsistency that impacts the playback loudness where some clients for some reason display the playback loudness as much lower then expected.
Unless im failing to understand something, I don’t see how this is possibly happening as changing the output device or volume in game or on the OS does not change the playbackloudness.
btw it is across all 3 tracks at any time position where this is identified
Although personally that may be the issue, it could also be based on drivers/audio settings on different PCs, at least from my assumption. Have you tried having multiple people try your game and report back on what they see in the developer console?
PlaybackLoudness is not raw amplitude but a measure of perceived loudness, calculated by RMS (Root Mean Square) of the last 1024 samples of the uncompressed audio, then normalized to a range of 0-1000. Some devices/hardware may process the audio differently, before Roblox even applies its RMS/DSP computation, which might lead to variations of perceived loudness.
Perhaps you could keep track of the highest reached loudness values and scale other values relative to that to achieve more consistent normalized values, if that’s what you’re looking for.
