Okay, this dynamic range compression has really been angering me to no end. I've been reading a lot more about it and am really starting to get mad. One of the songs that really FIRST stuck out as being compressed to no end is "A New York Christmas" by Rob Thomas. It is a great song, but I can actually hear distortion/compression in the song. Post feedback. As far as I read, when you see a sine wav essentially cut or leveled off, like the arrows, it was forcefully volume limited and compressed. All but the first were released in 2008!
Many of these songs give me a lifeless feeling. Blah, yikes, overbearing, turn it down...way down.
The second is by the new artist David Archuleta, "Crush." Look at how compressed this is!!!
No surprise here, he will be a huge seller for the record labels. It's just too bad that modern music is destroyed so horribly. I cannot even listen to a lot of the new stuff--especially as I start realizing what is going on and improve my audio equipment to be better able to reproduce the disasters.
Hollywood's Not America by Ferras
Disturbia by Rihanna
I would venture to say that the bitrate value produced by the FLAC encoder reveals just how likely it is that a song is compressed. In order to require over 1,000Kb/sec, you pretty much have to compress it...unless there are sections of quieter parts. All of these are well above 900 but many pass 1K--the ones that don't have as many quieter parts that bring the average down.
