> Spotify's audio didn't use to be all that great, except with the normalization turned off. Now with their 'quiet' normalization option, that doesn't compress quiet tracks (a clear edge over Apple Music), it's starting to sound transparent to me, as -q 9 encoded (~320 kbps) Vorbis should.

What annoys me is they're mixing together two features (namely normalization and dynamic range compression) and putting them behind one toggle.

I want normalization, it's hugely annoying playing music on my PS4 because the Spotify client doesn't have it there and I constantly have tot tweak the volume.

I do not want compression.

But on my phone and computer I have to use their 'normal' normalization level and take the compression because 'quiet' means I am constantly turning up my sound level when listening to Spotify and turning it back down when I do anything else so my ears don't get blasted.