[MLA] Apple seems to have turned Soundcheck ON by default...

[Grimm | Eelco]

Hi Bob,

> Hi, Eelco. At the AES convention, Buddy announced that Normalization would be turned on by default but only for NEW devices. Is this announcement an improvement even over the announcement he had made at the convention?
> 

No, that’s still as it is afaik. Our former thread on this topic covered that, Bob Ludwig had confirmed that normalization is not ON by default if a user moves his/her old data to a new device. So the new default is only effective for Apple customers who never owned an Apple device. That is a _very_ small group of people I’m afraid…

Let’s hope there will be an ‘evolutionary process’ in the minds of the Apple managers.

Cheers,
Eelco

> On 1/18/22 4:54 PM, Grimm | Eelco wrote:
>> Dear friends,
>> 
>> I had a conversation with Buddy. This is the situation:
>> 
>> - Apple Music is now LUFS in stead of ‘SoundCheck’. The track normalization target is -16 LUFS - which is compatible with td1008! Album normalization is still -16 LUFS for the         average album level, like it used to be with SoundCheck - which is not compatible with td1008… Buddy is pushing for adopting td1008 on this aspect too. For me it is very important because we want to tell the world that there’s just 1 method now. But at least they have come halfway.
>> 
>> - Normalization is now ON by default because the loudness jump from -6 LUFS pop material to Atmos mixes and back was too much for the managers. So it was Dolby Atmos that finally solved it (how ironic).
>> 
>> - Apple Music does not switch the sample rate of a connected sound card automatically, like for instance the Tidal app does. In my opinion this is quite ignorant when streaming lossless high res audio quality. According to Buddy the topic was on the agenda, but considered just as a ‘nice to have’. Small chance it will be solved soon.
>> 
>> - Apple Music is now also open for Android and web browsers (Web Player <https://music.apple.com/> and MusicKit <https://developer.apple.com/musickit/>) but lossless and Atmos is not supported via these channels because of DRM… This will         hopefully be solved later.
>> 
>> All the best,
>> Eelco
>> 
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