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It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now (www.youtube.com)
submitted 22 hours ago by BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Welcome to the era of only Spotify Plays matter - let's take a look at the underbelly of streaming scams affecting independent artists.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

physical media CDs for music

My understanding is that the streaming services basically ended the loudness war by imposing ReplayGain-style volume normalization. I'm not sure that I want to restart it.

[–] mangaskahn@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That's true, from a certain point of view. What they actually did was give everyone a common target. We still get everything compressed and limited into a flat line, just now we don't have to adjust the volume on our stereo between songs.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

We still get everything compressed

I don't know if sound engineers are doing so, but the streaming services removed the volume benefit to doing so. If you use DRC, your music will be cut in volume. DRC will reduce audio quality both on CDs and streaming services, but before there at least was a volume edge to gain, and now that's gone.