I believe you may be mistaken as to what the Loudness Normalization feature is doing. While Spotify IS applying file compression (ala mp3) to every one of their records (and this affects the sound quality) I have not heard any reports of them applying any additional post-EQ or volume compression in the way that, say, a radio station might. I don't believe this works the way that you may think it is working.
It sounds to me as though you're saying that Spotify's loudness normalization is affecting the audio quality of the records. Suggesting better codec doesn't matter and is purely for pseudo audiophile completely neglect the work people have been tuning and making these audio codec better for the past ~20 years.Īnd yes, 10 years later Musepack v8 still beats AAC or Opus in High Bitrate. Along with problematic samples testing.įor 90%+ of general public, MP3 128kbps with a decent encoder ( LAME ) has been good enough for well over a decade.
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Where professional encoder developers and enthusiast ABX the hell out of psychoacoustics tuning. >Purely marketing for the “more is better” pseudo audiophile.Īll the other test listed were done during what I called the Audio Codec era on HydrogenAudio. And it was tested with sort of randomly selected participants, and randomly selected sample sound track. This Was the only test that had included Uncompressed WAV or PCM as anchor. Participants were not offered any form of remuneration or any other form of inducement for their involvement. With respect to background, 28% were students at the University, whilst 33% were academic or faculty staff and 39% were administrative and support staff. >A total of 100 participants engaged with the listening test and were recruited from the Merchiston campus at Edinburgh Napier University.
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