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.

  • DJ3riple@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    When I find that the normalize volume setting is just turned back for some reason. Like, I knew it started sounded quiet again recently but couldn’t figure out why.