Oct 8, 2026
How Music Recommendation Algorithms Actually Work
How streaming services pick your next song: collaborative filtering, audio analysis, skips as signals, and practical ways to steer your recommendations.
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Oct 6, 2026
How Lossy Audio Compression Works: MP3, AAC and Opus
Learn what MP3, AAC, Opus and FLAC actually throw away, why you rarely hear it, and how to run a blind test to find the quality you can truly hear.
Sep 30, 2026
How Loudness Normalization Ended the Loudness War
Streaming services now level every track to a target like -14 LUFS. Here is how that ended the loudness war and what it means for how music is mastered.
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