The Audio Engineering Society has just released new recommendations for the loudness levels streaming services should distribute their audio at - but they’re not for you and me.

Having said that, understanding how they work is a powerful tool for predicting what will happen to your music when it's streamed. In this episode we talk about:

• Who the TD1008 guidelines are for
• Why they’re needed
• How they can make normalization more effective (and more musical)
• Why the numbers are slightly different for speech and music
• What the numbers are, and why
• Why you should care

Full show notes on our website http://themasteringshow.com/episode-78