[MLA] Avenged Sevenfold

[Kevin Gross]

The outline for improving ReplayGain is here -
http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=ReplayGain_2.0_specification

I would actually like to see this adopted as a loudness normalization AES
standard for file-based playback. I could make this happen if I could find
a few more hours in the week for a year or so.

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Ian Shepherd <ian at mastering-media.co.uk>
wrote:

>
> > Spotify uses the ReplayGain algorithm for loudness measurement. It might
> help to finish the work to update ReplayGain to use BS.1770
>
> If you can influence that in any way it would be fantastic, Kevin !
>
> > I think Spotify actually uses a lower target level than YouTube. Lower
> target should help improve normalization.
>
> Measurements show that YouTube’s overall level is approx. -13 LUFS,
> whereas Spotify’s is roughly -11 LUFS
>
> > If limiting is in play, that complicates things. I don't think we
> advocate limiting as part of normalization
>
> Limiting is certainly being used, a Spotify software engineer told me that
> years ago.
>
> Ian
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