[MLA] Normalizing on Tidal

[Thomas Lund]

Hi Eelco,

You might be right that a new round of remastering could happen. Part of the exercise is to find a reason for releasing a “new” product.

In the Nordic countries, Spotify has been ugly times two: It only return 10% of the revenue to artists iTunes does, and Spotify don’t care about audio quality. By taking most money out of music, Spotify could be actually speed up the re-re-master trend. At least Tidal users would appreciate it :-)

BTW, I’m promoting the NormL principle everywhere, but the ideal is of course to have access to a late gain control in a *system*, especially if interfacing from the streaming device is analog. Hopefully Apple has listened...

cheers,
Thomas




> On 25/02/2016, at 17.42, Grimm | Eelco <eelco at grimmaudio.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
>> A couple of years ago when Tidal decided to start re-rip all content and make it lossless, I helped them decide which essential level-data about each track to store as metadata. It ended up being peak level and loudness level (per ITU-BS.1770/EBU R128), and now they’re about ready to launch a normalized service.
> 
> That is _great_ news! Good job!
> 
>> On a recent trip to Oslo I suggested they should include a PLR filter, which would also be easy based on the above data. Play criteria could be, for instance, US rock after year 2000 with a PLR higher than 13 dB.
> 
> :-) maybe one day albums will be 'remastered' again, this time with _more_ dynamics. 
> 
>> Some record comapanies, BTW, insert watermarking outside Tidal’s control, and some demand them to only offer the latest version (sigh!) of a given track.
> 
> There's still some work to do...
> 
> Cheers,
> Eelco
> 
> 
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