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.
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.