Audio Praxis: Mixing and Mastering for Today’s Music Streaming Services

On the cutting-edge of current audio industry trends, this article by Jon Schorah explains what you should know about delivering music to Spotify, Apple Music, TIDAL, and other platforms. Jon Schorah explains how to deal with different audio codecs, the effects of masking, Spectral Band Replication (SBS), Parametric Stereo (PS) and others way these services deal with data rate reduction, as well as loudness normalization. This article was originally published in audioXpress, June 2018.