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Consistent

Smoother Channel Switching and Consistent 8D Spatial Tone

Audio v1.0.3

Two small fixes that clean up the feel of using the extension live. Flipping between channel modes or toggling 8D while audio is playing used to produce a brief click or pop; the gains now ramp the same way volume and EQ already do. The 8D spatial character is also deterministic now — pages with multiple videos, or a reload mid-session, no longer shift the "room" feel between clips. Everything else carries over from 1.0.2 unchanged.

  • Switching between Stereo, Mono, and Wide modes no longer produces an audible click — gains ramp smoothly, the same way volume already did
  • The 8D spatial effect now sounds the same every time — no more drift between clips or after a page reload

Channel switching without the click

Flipping the Channel mode — Stereo, Mono, or Wide — used to cause a brief audible pop if audio was already playing when you made the switch. The same happened when toggling 8D on or off mid-playback. The pop was a byproduct of the channel-mix gains jumping to their new values all at once.

Those gains now ramp over a short window rather than snapping. The transition is inaudible — you hear the new mode settle in cleanly, the same way a volume drag or EQ band adjustment already did. Nothing else about how the modes work has changed.

Consistent 8D character across clips and reloads

The 8D spatial effect builds its “room” — the reverb characteristics that give the effect its depth — using parameters generated when the audio engine first attaches to a media element. Before this release those parameters were randomized on each attachment, which meant pages with several videos could produce subtly different 8D characters per clip. A reload had the same effect: the spatial feel could drift between sessions.

The parameters are now derived deterministically. The same page, the same video, the same playback session — the 8D character stays consistent throughout. If you switch a video, the effect sounds exactly as it did before.

What carries over

No new permissions. No listing changes. The soft limiter, smooth volume and EQ ramps, protected-stream capture banner, audible-tabs list, and the Chrome Web Store listing from 1.0.2 are all here exactly as they were.