volyme

Low volume is exactly the same complaint about Spotify i have posted already here: http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/to...

Please please please Spotify, please provide an option to disable the normalization.

As others have noted, normalization based on the RMS of a wide range of sources will basically lower the number of bits used for the tracks with an over average RMS, which will in turn increase the noise floor when people adjust their amplifiers to compensate (not to mention all the people who are maxing their sound card amplifiers already and don't have that option).

A visual guide:



If it's punch and power for your advertisements you want, just compress/limit the hell out of them and I can assure you they will cut through the music -- radio stations are doing this every day (and they usually compress the whole stream, including the music, so you would even have and advantage here since you, hopefully, don't compress our precious audio material).

As for paying users the advertisement argument is effectivly moot, so there I see absolutely no reason not to provide that check-box, unless you actually did destructively process the audio files.

Please consider these arguments, and if you have the time comment on them that would be an added bonus :)

Thanks!