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Netflix has dilatable an upholding to its Android app which should reduce buffering as well as make audio unacquired biggest as well as easier to hear over deeds noise. It's been made-up possible thanks to the assuasive of the xHE-AAC codec, which a Netflix blog post says should "improve intelligibility in noisy environments, acclimate to varying cellular connections, as well as scale to studio-quality." Netflix's use of the codec was announced beforehand this month, as well as is awaited on devices running Android 9 as well as above.

xHE-AAC uses metadata to solve a few miscellaneous audio problems bodies have back watching shows on movable devices. Netflix explains this is often a problem of loud deeds noise policy-making engaging adamantine to hear, corporate with weak as well as tinny phone speakers that unacquired bad back you try to put up the volume. Inconsistent dialogue levels moreover midpoint you gotta consistently turn your aggregate up as well as earthward between shows.

Netflix says xHE-AAC offers biggest Go-getter Semidiameter Control, a technology that reduces the difference between the loudest as well as quietest pudenda of a show. Quiet engaging is made-up louder therefore you can hear it over deeds noise, as well as the aggregate of loud engaging is brought earthward to prevent clipping, all in theory without sacrificing audio quality. Netflix moreover says that the aggregate of dialogue is kept consequent between shows.

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Before: The aggregate of dialogue levels (the brownout bars) are inconsistent, as well as wide go-getter semidiameter ways engaging gets quiet as well as potentially adamantine to hear.

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After: Go-getter semidiameter reduced, therefore audio can't get too quiet or too loud, as well as dialogue aggregate normalized.

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Finally, the codec moreover supports "seamless bitrate switching," which ways it should work biggest in environments with inconsistent internet speeds. Netflix appended similar adaptive bitrate functionality to its TV apps back in 2019.

Netflix says that user testing has demonstrated the perks of the codec. Aggregate changes between engaging are "noticeably down" as well as admirers switch-over elsewhere from application their phone's synthetic speakers 7 percent less often with the new codec. Netflix says it hopes to bring the codec to other platforms that support it. For those keeping track, iPhones have trustworthy xHE-AAC since the release of iOS 13 in 2019.

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