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Loudness war - A trend of increasing audio levels in recorded music, which reduces audio fidelity and—according to many critics—listener enjoyment. ...First reported as early as the 1940s (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I teach about this to my students and they are stunned by then diffence when we listened to overcompressed vs lightly compressed tracks. It might be seducing at first, but loudness maximize tracks will cause ear fatigue so much quickly. The disparition of dynamics in the 2000 is one of theb worst thing that happened to music. Amongs the biggest culprits are RHCP Californication and Death Magnetic by Metalika.

The only real positive thing I will give to streaming platforms is to "punish" tracks that are too loud thus enciuraging people to mix with lufs.