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<p>Hi, Eelco. I just opened Apple Music in Big Sur (OS 11.5) on my
iMac and Soundcheck is not turned on. I've never run Apple music
anyway... not since several Mac OS versions, probably going back
to when it was iTunes, so I would have expected Sound Check to be
turned on, but it is not. <br>
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<p>This is not a "new device". <br>
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<p>Bob</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/18/22 4:54 PM, Grimm | Eelco
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Dear friends,
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<div class="">I had a conversation with Buddy. This is the
situation:</div>
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<div class="">- 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.</div>
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<div class="">- 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).</div>
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<div class="">- 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.</div>
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<div class="">- Apple Music is now also open for Android and web
browsers (<a href="https://music.apple.com/" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">Web Player</a> and <a
href="https://developer.apple.com/musickit/" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">MusicKit</a>) but lossless and Atmos is
not supported via these channels because of DRM… This will
hopefully be solved later.</div>
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<div class="">All the best,</div>
<div class="">Eelco</div>
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