[MLA] Permission to use MLA as the petitioner for....

[Bob Katz]

Dear Fellow MLA members:

First of all, Eelco and I would like to nominate Ian Shepherd to become 
a member of the MLA. May I please have a second and a show of hands 
approving his membership...


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After the whirlwind AES show I would like to put you up to date on a 
project that I began and which Eelco and Ian and I are currently working 
on: A Petition, intended to be put on change.org, tentatively titled:  
"Say No To A Streaming Loudness War". I've delicately mentioned this 
petition idea to a few people at the Convention and everyone, I mean 
literally everyone, is enthusiastic about this idea, whose time has 
definitely come.

As you know, we have spent several years trying to bring Apple and other 
companies and streamers to the table and so far had no response. And in 
fact, Apple informed the Technical committee for Streaming loudness that 
it is against their company policy to participate in any outside 
organizations.

So, at this moment here is the status of the petition:

It is currently in draft. As soon as the three of us are happy with its 
content, which could take a few more weeks, we will let you all see the 
draft and give us your feedback.

I'm not certain when the date of AES president position changes, but 
I'll refer to Andres Mayo as past president and John Krivit as current 
president for our convenience:

Andres Mayo, AES past President and mastering engineer, is very much in 
favor of this petition. Andres and I participated in trying to get Apple 
to become a part of our technical committee and failed. John Krivit, AES 
president, is also very much in favor of this petition.

However, it is highly unlikely that the AES can act as an advocacy 
organization for the petition, in any case, which is ironic, since the 
goal of the society is to encourage high quality audio. Nevertheless, 
even if the AES were an advocacy organization, it would take so much red 
tape to get it to approve the petition that we all know we should find 
another way to make it happen.

My proposal is that the MLA become the named organization behind the 
promulgation of this petition and I would like to ask your permission to 
make that happen. Of course you all will have approval of all our 
actions and nothing will happen without your knowledge and consent. May 
I have a second of this motion and a show of hands to approve this 
motion: "MLA to be the organization behind a streaming loudness petition 
to be put on change.org."

Other good news: We are beginning to round up friends, producers, 
engineers who have contacts with important musicians and artists, who 
will be willing to sign this petition. Please start thinking about your 
contacts, prominent musicians whose name at the top of the petition will 
get the attention of Apple, Google, Spotify, and other streamers that 
are the petitionees. Let us know here the names of prominent artists 
that you could personally contact. I know that Thomas is a friend of 
Mark Knopfler and he would be a slam dunk. I won't bother to name other 
names right now that we have contact with, but I can assure you that the 
potential list of signers will be prominent and thus will gain a lot of 
attention and publicity, even in the regular news.

More news about this exciting development in the near future. I hope you 
all will come on board for this important next step in the struggle to 
get streamers on board with loudness normalization using a sensible target.


Thanks,



Bob

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