Specs and loudness

WAVDROP reads every file when you upload it, so you don't have to open it in another app to check what you're sending.

What you see#

Each song shows its sample rate, bit depth and loudness. Loudness is integrated loudness in LUFS, measured on upload.

How streaming services will play it#

Streaming services turn loud masters down, and some turn quiet ones up. Open the loudness on a song to see, service by service, what happens to this master:

• Spotify (Normal, Loud and Quiet settings, plus the web player, which doesn't normalize)
• Apple Music with Sound Check
• YouTube
• SoundCloud

Each row says whether the service turns the track down, lifts it, or leaves it alone, and why. For example, YouTube doesn't raise quieter masters, and some services stop lifting a track before its peaks would clip.

Hear it as on a service#

Choose Hear it as on and pick a service to play the song at the level that service would. It can turn a track down to show you a loud master's real level. It can't preview a boost.

Show specs to your client#

Your client doesn't see technical details unless you want them to.

• Show client technical info in Project settings decides whether specs appear on that project's share page.
• Auto show tracks metadata in Settings opens every project with specs showing, for you.