This has been driving me nuts for a really long time. I’ve been hearing a lot of clipping artifacts when playing music through spotify on my PC. All these while, I assumed this was due to the source file uploaded on spotify being spotty.
I was today years old when I made the link that most songs that I hear clipping artifacts were songs that are low in volume. Turns out, the normalize volume setting in preferences will attempt to boost the volume of these songs (as the option is supposed to do) but introduced a fuck tonne of clipping artifacts into it.
Its a useful function but the volume normalising algorithm is broken on spotify.
Not in my experience, unless you use “Loud” setting.
Actually, I captured the output of the app when playing “Anne Sophie-Mutter / Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni / 12. L’inverno: III Allegro”, which has:
and I got literally the same data, to the sample, with normalization turned on.