The Audio Engineering Society has just released new recommendations for the loudness levels streaming services should distribute their audio at - but they’re not for you and me.
Having said that, understanding how they work is a powerful tool for predicting what will happen to your music when it's streamed. In this episode we talk about:
- Who the TD1008 guidelines are for
- Why they’re needed
- How they can make normalization more effective (and more musical)
- Why the numbers are slightly different for speech and music
- What the numbers are, and why
- Why you should care
Links
AES TD1008 - Recommendations for Loudness of Internet Audio Streaming and On-Demand Distribution
Streaming Loudness – the AES TD1008 Recommendations, and why you should care
TMS #27 - Mastering audio for games
TMS #41 - The problem with loudness normalization – and TIDAL’s solution
TMS #77 – Spotify disable their limiter (and other loudness news)
Loudness Penalty
