JackOfAll;616610 Wrote: > Go back a few pages. I posted 'replaygain stats' > (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=606430&postcount=1961) > for such a comparison.
Thanks for pointing me to that. My amateurish investigations seem to confirm that the Squeezebox/Spotify plugin has the Spotify normalization enabled. My ears had already told me that something is very wrong with the dynamics when Spotify is played through Squeezebox so I've looked at a 5 track classical piece (Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra) which I already have on CD and the identical CD is also on Spotify. I've then captured: a) the CD rip with b) the Spotify Website output with normalization OFF (captured by Total Recorder software) c) the Spotify Website output with normalization ON (captured by Total Recorder software) and d) the digital output of the Squeezebox Duet. This has been fed into an external soundboard and then simultaneously fed back to the PC and captured. These are the resulting wave files as displayed in Soundforge with the individual tracks marked out. The original CD rip and the Spotify Website without normalization files are similar (though not identical). The Spotify Website WITH normalization and the Squeezebox/plugin are very similar, though not identical/apart from the limiting that Spotify imposes. When playing Spotify through Squeezebox, it doesn't appear to make any difference whether normalization is enabled or disabled on the Spotify website. Original CD rip: http://www.box.net/shared/s42dn1j44y Spotify through the normal website - normalization OFF: http://www.box.net/shared/8nivtd6mad Spotify through the normal website - normalization ON: http://www.box.net/shared/m76162z12t Spotify - Squeezebox Duet digital output (using the Spotify Plug-in): http://www.box.net/shared/v3ujmd5862 To be honest, in spite of Triode's great work, I find Spotify via Squeezebox difficult to listen to (probably because most of my listening is classical, in which normalization destroys the dynamic relationships). So, I guess it's back to using an external soundcard for now. (Apologies for the long post.) -- JohnB ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79706 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
