Why Spotify Lowered the Volume of Songs and Ended Hegemonic Loudness
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywgeek/why-spotify-lowered-the-volume-of-songs-and-ended-hegemonic-loudness [motherboard.vice.com]
2017-08-02 01:23
At the end of May, Spotify made a change to its music files that went unnoticed by almost all of the service’s listeners. What was apparent, however, to sound engineers and studio wizards was that the volume had been reduced on every Spotify-hosted track.
Actually I noticed almost immediately, I just didn’t know what was happening.
source: MR