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by arianvanp 608 days ago
Spotify does some loudness normalization that you could disable in the settings. (Don't know anymore as don't use Spotify for years). Maybe worth checking.
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But that's just an auto volume level, it doesn't actually change the sound balance or dynamics or anything like that. It just makes the average volume of the track closer to the average volume of other tracks.
I did this years ago, it helped somewhat, but Apple's standard codec is still way better (I blind-tested this).