Loudness Penalty

Loudness Penalty is a cool website I found which will scan your audio and tell you if and how much the big platforms will adjust your loudness level so it complies with their platform standards.

Their site says:

Find out if your music will be turned down by YouTube, Spotify, TIDAL, Apple Sound Check and more. Discover your music’s Loudness Penalty score, for free.

Also, I asked the folks at Loudness Penalty if any of the platforms have different loudness target for podcast episodes as opposed to music tracks. Here is their reply:

“To date, platforms use the same standard for loudness normalization on all of their content, so there are not different values for speech or music streaming. Of course this could change in the future, so we would update Loudness Penalty if it’s necessary.”

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