I've noticed that many of my early 90s CDs are better than the versions available currently on streaming services.
To use a couple of well-known albums as an example flacs ripped from my CDs of Nirvana 'Nevermind' and Nas 'Illmatic' both have an average DR of ~11 whereas the best versions currently available for streaming are apparently something like ~6.
And similarly, if an album has several versions available for streaming the level of compression can vary a lot between the versions.
That got me wondering, which music players/servers/streaming services display either dynamic range and/or loudness (R 128)? And are there any that show it on a track-by-track basis for easy comparison?
I have a large collection of flacs with DR and ReplayGain tags tagged with foobar2000. But anything I don't have to use a PC with? Or where I don't have to click several times to read the tags would be nice. Do I really have to get Roon or are there any alternatives?
Let me know what your solutions are, thanks.
ps. currently mainly using a Raspberry Pi running Plexamp and Logitech Media Server and also stream via Spotify.
pps. I know that DR and loudness don't guarantee the best mastering and don't tell us much about spectral content but let us focus on the aforementioned for the sake of this thread.
To use a couple of well-known albums as an example flacs ripped from my CDs of Nirvana 'Nevermind' and Nas 'Illmatic' both have an average DR of ~11 whereas the best versions currently available for streaming are apparently something like ~6.
And similarly, if an album has several versions available for streaming the level of compression can vary a lot between the versions.
That got me wondering, which music players/servers/streaming services display either dynamic range and/or loudness (R 128)? And are there any that show it on a track-by-track basis for easy comparison?
I have a large collection of flacs with DR and ReplayGain tags tagged with foobar2000. But anything I don't have to use a PC with? Or where I don't have to click several times to read the tags would be nice. Do I really have to get Roon or are there any alternatives?
Let me know what your solutions are, thanks.
ps. currently mainly using a Raspberry Pi running Plexamp and Logitech Media Server and also stream via Spotify.
pps. I know that DR and loudness don't guarantee the best mastering and don't tell us much about spectral content but let us focus on the aforementioned for the sake of this thread.