AES77-2023 Loudness Guidelines for Internet Audio Streaming and On-Demand Distribution
Defines the track-normalized music target, album alternative, tolerance and True Peak recommendation represented by this Profile.
Reference Loudness−16 LUFS
- Integrated
- > −16 LUFS → Warn
- True Peak Max
- > −1 dBTP → Fail
AES77 Streaming Music
A monitoring Profile for track-normalized internet music distribution.
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Details
AES77 recommends −16 LUFS Distribution Loudness for track-normalized music and a Maximum True Peak no higher than −1 dBTP at the input of a lossy encoder. This Profile warns above the nominal target rather than treating the permitted upper tolerance as an operating goal. AES77 separately recommends −14 LUFS for the loudest track when album-loudest-track normalization is used; that workflow depends on relationships across an album and is intentionally not represented by this single-item Profile. AES77 does not prescribe Loudness Range, so no LRA rule is added.
- Reference Loudness
- −16 LUFS
- Integrated
- > −16 LUFS → Warn
- True Peak Max
- > −1 dBTP → Fail
- File Size
- 596 bytes
File Checksum
sha256:0428455536c08a68f046204cd46962b9bf4ebb49847eac59de438bf3473e1ee1
Sources
Loudness Normalization
Explains track and album normalization and the −16 LUFS track-normalized music recommendation.
Release History
Release 1
2026-10-14 · published
Initial monitoring release for track-normalized AES77 music distribution.