yeah well, something is off and behaving differently compared to Pulseaudio xD I just try to find out if it still annoys me in 1-2 weeks. So far, today it did not annoy me but I was mostly in meetings anyway, those are not normalized xD
well, on Pulseaudio and Windows, the normalization that the streaming services use works. I just realized it yesterday: In the past (years ago) one was constantly adjusting volume levels when listening to or watching stuff especially on YouTube (thats the main reason I always want my software volume to be around 50% - to have enough room for adjustment in both directions).
In the last years, I did not have to adjust anything. There were just some random videos that were too silent, but none that were too loud. With looking at the in-video statistics, it is now clear to me. Most creators upload their stuff too loud, so Youtube normalizes it and the experienced volume level is the same for all those videos. Only when the video is too silent, it does not work because increasing the volume over the original value always influences the audio quality and Youtube apparently does not do that.
Surprising how used to stuff like that one becomes without even noticing.