<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">cheers,</div><div class="">Thomas</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><div class="">On 3 Nov 2019, at 12.10, Grimm | Eelco <<a href="mailto:eelco@grimmaudio.com" class="">eelco@grimmaudio.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><p class="">Why don't they just attenuate every song 3 dB and add metadata. <br class=""></p></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Cheers,</div><div class="">Eelco<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><div class="">
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</p><p class="">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. <br class="">
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