[MLA] Spotify’s plans

[Thomas Lund]

Hi,

That principle was discussed a couple of years ago when I visited Spotify, and it’s been addressed at AES panels. No need to alter a track or influence its dither upstream unless levels are unreasonable.

cheers,
Thomas



On 3 Nov 2019, at 12.10, Grimm | Eelco <eelco at grimmaudio.com> wrote:

> Why don't they just attenuate every song 3 dB and add metadata. 
> 

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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