[MLA] Tidal

[Kevin Gross]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Grimm | Eelco <eelco at grimmaudio.com>
wrote:

> > In NY you should try to ask Buddy whether he has a suggestion to help
> Tidal (and others) lower their target level without (seemingly) taking the
> party out of playback.
>
> Mark that Apple's -16 LUFS is for their type of album normalization the
> _average_ loudness. That means the loudest track of the album will then be
> app. -14 LUFS. So everybody is at about the same level at the moment.
>
> Yes, I guess everyone's at about the same level *with normalization
enabled*. Things are much louder (on average, playing modern releases) with
normalization disabled. The question is, is there a way that the OS can
mitigate the difference between normalization on and off? Can Apple, for
instance, also lower the level of system sounds or rescale the volume
setting indicator so that the lowered average playback level is not so
obvious when normalization is enabled either by the user changing their
player settings or the player manufacturer changing the player's default
settings?

As you said originally, doing a frictionless UX transition to normalization
always-on or on-by-default is an interesting problem. I think Buddy would
be interested in this problem and might throw out some important
information we don't know about iTunes or iOS if you got him to do some
brainstorming on it.

Kevin
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