valpackett / soundfixer

A WebExtension that lets you fix sound problems in e.g. YouTube videos
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/soundfixer/
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"Switch L/R" does not work when "Mono" is active #30

Closed ErdLingMS closed 2 years ago

ErdLingMS commented 3 years ago

May sound like a non-issue or even a joke, but here is the explanation:

Sometimes you get videos, where one of the stereo sound channels has good audio, while the other has bad audio. Clicking on "Mono" in SoundFixer will (apparently) feed one of the channels to both ears and disregards the other one. However, when that channel happens to be the one with bad audio, I would expect activating "Switch L/R" to fix it. Instead, nothing changes.

valpackett commented 3 years ago

Nah, it won't feed one channel to both ears, downmixing stereo to mono in Web Audio is defined as

Both input channels (L and R) are equally combined to produce the unique output channel (M). output.M = 0.5 * (input.L + input.R)

Does panning to center the good channel (and setting mono) work?