That's not even necessary. Selectable compression was available at least 30 years ago on stock car radios. Mid-'90s Ford CD players had a button on them labeled

That's not even necessary. Selectable compression was available at least 30 years ago on stock car radios. Mid-'90s Ford CD players had a button on them labeled "Compress," and I'm sure they weren't the only ones. Today, a selectable compression level would be trivial to offer on every playback device. There was never a reason to destroy the music, which makes the crime of doing so even more despicable. You can't get dynamic range back once the master is destroyed, but you can always get rid of it on demand during playback. Apple and Spotify should have used their market power to demand properly-mastered recordings (a la the early '90s, which is when many believe mastering quality peaked). Instead we get asinine Atmos bastardizations and "lossless" delivery of ruined songs.