Does anyone else notice some massive volume differences between tracks on Tiny Music in atmos on Tidal? Particularly track 3. Way louder than the neighboring tracks. Major differences a couple other times on the album too.
Yep. Mediainfo confirms the dialnorm for some tracks is way off. Have seen this on some other Tidal Atmos titles as well such as the recently release Dua Lipa "Future Nostalgia (The Moonlight Edition)". That one has, like, every other track with a whack dialnorm level.
I suspect this may be an encoding issue, would be interesting to know if the Apple Music files are the same as Tidal, ie both encoded by Dolby Labs. There's no way to get at the Apple files at the moment though to compare.
I'm not sure if Apple's use of Dolby MAT and features like 'Sound Check' handle radically different dialnorm values within an album or not. Those features are designed to mitigate the volume differences between stereo and Atmos tracks which we know has always been a big problem with Tidal tracks.