[MLA] Spotify’s plans

[Grimm | Eelco]

> Why don't they just attenuate every song 3 dB and add metadata. 
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Because they don’t want to attenuate soft tracks that do not benefit from attenuation. In other words: if your master is softer than the highest target, they will not touch its original audio data.

Cheers,
Eelco
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> Since they're planning on using metadata all the time in every player then there's no reason to prenormalize any piece to any target. They didn't get any advantage anyway. 
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