Google’s historical past with music providers is nearly as convoluted and irritating as its historical past with messaging. Nonetheless, issues have gotten calmer (and slower) ever since Google ceded music to the YouTube division. The YouTube Music app has its share of annoyances, to make sure, however it’s getting a long-overdue characteristic that customers have been requesting for ages: constant quantity.

Listening to a single album from starting to finish is more and more uncommon on this age of limitless entry to music. As your playlist wheels from one style or period to the subsequent, the inevitable vibe shifts might be grating. Totally different tracks can have wildly totally different volumes, which might be surprising and doubtlessly damaging to your ears if you happen to’ve received your quantity up for a ballad solely to be hit with a heavy guitar riff after the break.

The gist of constant quantity easy—it normalizes quantity throughout tracks, making the quantity roughly the identical. Constant quantity builds on a characteristic from the YouTube app known as “steady quantity.” When Google launched steady quantity for YouTube, it famous that the characteristic would continuously adjust volume all through the video. Due to that, it was disabled for music content material on the platform.