Welcome to the era of only Spotify Plays matter - let’s take a look at the underbelly of streaming scams affecting independent artists.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      10 days ago

      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.

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        10 days ago

        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.

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      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