[MLA] More good news (Spotify)

[Ian Shepherd]

Hi Bob,

I haven’t tested that yet - I suspect the answer is Yes, and they’ve just reduced their reference level by 3 dB which (I believe) brings it back to the DialNorm default ?

Ian



> On 22 May 2017, at 20:18, Bob Katz <bobkatz at digido.com> wrote:
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> Hello, spy! What about the limiting? Are Spotify NOT doing any upward normalization if it would cause peak limiting? That's the real bugaboo with Spotify
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> Bob
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> On 5/22/17 12:27 PM, Ian Shepherd wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> You may already know about this, or have been involved, but my spies have made me aware that Spotify just reduced their loudness reference level to approximately -14 LUFS !
>> 
>> Eelco, this might make a nice addition to your presentation ?!
>> 
>> Ultimately we’d like it to be reduced further of course, but Eelco’s research shows why this is unlikely for the time being - meanwhile this is a huge step in the right direction, I hope you agree !
>> 
>> Ian
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