Welcome to the era of only Spotify Plays matter - let’s take a look at the underbelly of streaming scams affecting independent artists.
Welcome to the era of only Spotify Plays matter - let’s take a look at the underbelly of streaming scams affecting independent artists.
I just think we should all go back to physical media CDs for music and blu ray for films is what I am currently doing
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.
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.
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.
Last year I put my music collection on an SD card and slapped it into a hifiman walker mp3 player. I quickly discovered that having a device solely for music has made my listening much more deliberate, and I’ve listened to more music more often than I ever have because of it. I even plug it in my car instead of using bluetooth