Spotify has changed its loudness normalization playback target level!
This is huge. I noticed this ca. 2 days ago. The level seems to have dropped very close to the iTunes or Tidal standard. Ca. -14 LUFS ... give or take. I'll do some measurements and update this post when I've got some numbers.
Update nr. 1:
Seems to be targeted to ca. -14 LUFS with some margin of error.
I measured the Global Top 50 playlist and it normalized at -14.1 LUFS Update nr. 2: I let this playlist (https://open.spotify.com/user/skonrokk/playlist/4ws1ABhXns8fvYc5hdZ
Audio in video - quality control FTW!
Artists!
Don't stop the quality control of the music / sound when you give the video editor the file for the song he's about to use for your video. Use the best quality you can (and by that I don't mean to upsample or anything like that, just lossless master files). If the video editor has been using a rough mix or a older version of the mix (not mastered even) make sure he gets the final version as well and actually replaces the file! And when you get the video back... you
