<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>Excellent news all round ! Do we know what playback reference level Tidal will be using ? [Crosses fingers for -16 LUFS]<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 25 Feb 2016, at 16:42, Grimm | Eelco <<a href="mailto:eelco@grimmaudio.com" class="">eelco@grimmaudio.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Hi Thomas,<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">A couple of years ago when Tidal decided to start re-rip all content and make it lossless, I helped them decide which essential level-data about each track to store as metadata. It ended up being peak level and loudness level (per ITU-BS.1770/EBU R128), and now they’re about ready to launch a normalized service.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">That is _great_ news! Good job!<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On a recent trip to Oslo I suggested they should include a PLR filter, which would also be easy based on the above data. Play criteria could be, for instance, US rock after year 2000 with a PLR higher than 13 dB.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">:-) maybe one day albums will be 'remastered' again, this time with _more_ dynamics. <br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Some record comapanies, BTW, insert watermarking outside Tidal’s control, and some demand them to only offer the latest version (sigh!) of a given track.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">There's still some work to do...<br class=""><br class="">Cheers,<br class="">Eelco<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">MLA mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:MLA@grimmaudio.nl" class="">MLA@grimmaudio.nl</a><br class="">http://grimmaudio.nl/mailman/listinfo/mla_grimmaudio.nl<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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