Music leaves a great impression on every listener. But when it is not your own mix on your personal disc space, but when you create it via a streaming service, you only have so much control on how up-beat or quiet the compositions will be presented to you on your playlist.

How can you be sure that your track will still sound great after enduring the changes? How to make sure your loud master will still sound as loud as you intended it to? Every streaming platform will normalize and encode your song using the rules they choose.

So we see that LUFS, which is the main normalization parameter used by Spotify, takes into account the dynamic range of the song, frequency spectrum, and other measurements. All this should be considered while mastering songs for Spotify.

The qualified sound engineer knows how to achieve the balance between these parameters and make the song sound perfect among other compositions on Spotify, while not sacrificing the dynamic range and frequency balance of the composition.

The platform aims to create the best listener’s experience for its users. That’s why the most attention is devoted to loudness standardization. Spotify normalizes the volume of all songs you play to a similar level, so you will be less likely to reach out to your device to change the volume from one song to another. Mastering for Spotify takes this into account.