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Wait, the audio in YouTube doesn't come from the CD? I never suspected that. I thought the article referred to that they took the audio, sourced from the CD, an
by Al-Khwarizmi 12y ago
Wait, the audio in YouTube doesn't come from the CD? I never suspected that. I thought the article referred to that they took the audio, sourced from the CD, and lowered the volume if it was too loud (which obviously can't bring the dynamic range back).
- rspeer 12y agoThat's what they're doing to the music that people upload, yes. Nobody's literally sticking a CD into a YouTube server, so what's on the CD is kind of beside the point. The parent poster's observation is that labels are uploading different, less-compressed mixes to YouTube now than the mix they release on CD, so that they sound better given YouTube's normalization.