YouTube Spatial Audio

Enjoy spatial audio for headphones on YouTube and YouTube Music.

Add spatial depth and stereo width to audio on YouTube and YouTube Music. Listen through headphones or earbuds and adjust the sound to your taste. FOUR AUDIO CONTROLS • Depth: increases the sense of front-to-back depth. • Width: increases the left-to-right spread of sound. • Reverb: adds more reverberation and lingering ambience. • Punch: boosts bass and kick drum low frequencies. Adjust each control independently, or choose Immersive, Natural, Wide or Closer voice. Hover over a question mark to see what a control does. CUSTOM SETTINGS FOR EACH OUTPUT DEVICE Save one custom preset for each output device, such as earbuds, headphones or speakers. A separate common custom preset is also available. Switching device profiles also switches which custom preset is saved or recalled. Try another preset and return to your saved sound whenever you want. Use the ⚙ button in the upper-right corner of settings to identify devices and choose how profiles switch. Auto mode applies a saved device profile when the Windows default output can be identified. Choose a profile manually if the device cannot be identified or you prefer not to allow microphone access. Windows per-app output selections cannot be detected. CONVENIENT CONTROLS • Hover over the speaker icon on YouTube or YouTube Music to reveal the settings button. • Open settings from the browser extension icon as well. • The settings interface supports Japanese and English. • Use the purple button to start or stop audio processing. • After the first connection, processing can connect automatically when a video or song starts playing. It never starts media playback on its own. • Hover over a slider and scroll the mouse wheel to adjust it by 1%. Choose Normal or Reversed to change which scrolling direction increases or decreases the value. GETTING STARTED Connect headphones or earbuds. Play a video or song on YouTube or YouTube Music. Open settings and click Start in this tab. Choose a preset or adjust the sliders, then use Save custom to keep your settings. Toggle Spatial audio to compare the effect. Stop returns the current tab to normal playback. PRIVACY Audio is processed locally on your device. Audio is not recorded, saved or transmitted externally. The optional device identification feature requests microphone permission for the relevant site, then stops the acquired stream. Normal audio processing and manual profile selection do not require microphone permission. You can revoke microphone permission in the browser settings for the relevant site. Microphone audio is not saved, analyzed or transmitted externally. Audio settings and device display/matching names are saved in your browser. Supported page URLs, player information and playback state are used to provide the feature, but browsing history and interaction logs are not stored. There are no ads or analytics. COMPATIBILITY Designed for YouTube and YouTube Music in desktop Chrome. The mobile YouTube app, head tracking and Dolby Atmos decoding are not supported. The effect varies with the source audio and your headphones or earbuds. This is an independent extension and is not an official product of YouTube or Google.