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

[Bob Katz]

On 1/18/22 6:18 PM, Grimm | Eelco wrote:

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

Fat chance :-(.  I forgot who told me what finally convinced Apple 
managers to go with SoundCheck on by default. I think it was the -18 
LUFS Atmos introduction and the level jumps related to that.


Bob




> 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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