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SuperchargeAudio — Clean High Boost and Protected-Audio Support

Audio v1.0.1

Push the volume up and stack the EQ as hard as you like — a new soft limiter catches the peaks, so 600% stays clean instead of buzzing. Slider and band moves now glide rather than click. Protected streams like Netflix and Spotify surface a one-tap capture banner when in-page boosting can't reach them, and a tap anywhere on a tab row switches you to it. The cross-tab sync and sticky mute from launch come along for the ride.

  • High volume and stacked EQ no longer distort — a soft limiter keeps loud audio clean all the way up to 600%
  • Volume and EQ changes ramp smoothly, so dragging a slider or a band no longer clicks or zippers
  • Protected streams like Netflix and Spotify get a one-tap capture banner when in-page boosting can't reach them
  • Click a tab anywhere in the audible-tabs list to jump to it, while its volume and mute controls stay put
  • Per-site sync, sticky manual mute, and the grey paused icon from the first release, carried forward

Loud, without the buzz

Crank the volume toward 600% and layer a few EQ boosts on top, and the signal used to run out of headroom — peaks hit the ceiling and turned harsh, buzzy, or crackly. A soft limiter now sits on the output. It eases the loudest peaks back under the line instead of letting them clip, so a quiet podcast pushed hard or a bass-heavy track with the low bands lifted stays clean at the top of the range.

The same release smooths how the controls move. Volume and each EQ band now ramp to their new value over a few milliseconds rather than jumping. Drag the slider or reshape a band and you hear the change glide in — no click, no zipper noise on the way there.

Streams that fought back

Some sites — Netflix, Spotify-style players, anything wrapped in DRM — don’t let the extension reach into the page’s audio the normal way. Before, those tabs simply wouldn’t respond to the volume or EQ. Now the popup spots when it’s up against protected audio and offers a capture banner: one tap routes the tab’s output through the same controls. There’s also a manual “Capture tab audio” link in the footer for the rare case auto-detect misses.

Capture runs entirely on your machine. Your browser shows its own “this tab is being shared” indicator while it’s on, and nothing about the audio leaves the device. A fix under the hood means the captured sound now actually starts playing through the processing chain, where before it could come up silent.

A lighter audible-tabs list

The list of tabs currently making noise gained a small convenience: click anywhere on a row and you jump straight to that tab. The volume readout and the mute button keep their own hit areas, so reaching for the controls never switches tabs by accident.

Smoother edges

A couple of rough spots are gone. The popup no longer closes on you while your cursor drifts over the audible-tabs list — a quirk that mostly bit on Edge. And a rare crash in the rating prompt has been patched, so the occasional ask for a review can’t take the popup down with it.

Carried over from launch

The conveniences from the first release are all still here, just no longer the headline. Per-site volume, EQ, and stereo settings stay in sync across every tab you have open on the same site. A manual mute holds even with Smart Mute on, so the tab you silenced stays silent after the popup closes. The toolbar icon turns grey while the extension is paused, and plain audio or video routes cleanly without leaving an autoplay warning behind in the console.