Comment on Why do I think music sounds better on my old MP3 player?
Carnelian@lemmy.world 16 hours agoCould be the opposite as well, youtube a while ago rolled out a “normalization” thing by default that absolutely ruins all audio on the platform and needs to be disabled on every device you have. Supposedly it was set to automatically disable for music but that depends on the uploader
Spotify streams have always been garbage in my experience, but I haven’t had a subscription in about a decade now so no idea if that’s still true
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 13 hours ago
Normalisation is pretty good if you need to keep your computer quiet
Carnelian@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Normalization is a legitimate, effective, and popular technique employed across the entire entertainment industry. Most well produced audio will have degrees of the effect applied tastefully.
I have no idea what youtube’s “normalization” is doing that ruins the quality of their audio to such a noticeable extent. It’s also totally indiscriminate of the video’s existing audio production. It sucks for someone to work hard and produce a good mix only for youtube to ruin it without your consent, possibly years after release