My experience is that you can use these charts and tools to get it close to the way each streaming service wants it, but you do not have control; they do. If you are just a hair over their limit they will make adjustments you may not like.

Many years ago I learned you cannot predict what an individual radio station will do to squash the dynamic range out of your song, only that it will. This streaming environment still unfortunately has some of that and it has been the Wild West as far as moving standards, if my experiences over the past six years are still true.

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