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by jefftk 1141 days ago
What would you do differently mastering for a CD versus Spotify?

(I'm in the middle of releasing an album, and we don't have different masters for these, but I could imagine that the situation is different for more professional groups)
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ummonk 1140 days ago
Spotify compresses it anyway but for digital audio you'd want to encode in 48 kHZ/24 bit whereas CD only supports 44.1 kHZ/16 bit. Anyone who can hear the difference would be an exceptional listener with an exceptional sound system though, at least assuming the masters are generated with proper dithering.
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jefftk 1140 days ago
We're getting our audio onto Spotify via CDBaby's distribution program, and they require 44.1 kHZ/16 bit.

(I initially tried uploading 24bit and they rejected it.)

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ummonk 1140 days ago
Oh. Well, even more reason to make sure you use proper dithering.
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