ryanrishi / loudness-wars

A closer look at dynamic compression over the past 50 years

loudness wars

The loudness wars refers to the increasing loudness of recorded music. The overall loudness of popular music is increasing because producers are adding increasing amounts dynamic compression.

Usage

virtualenv

$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate

pip

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

config

Register for a Spotify developer account here. Get the client_id and client_secret and put them in a file named config (see example.config for an example config).

Run it

Seed the Billboard database

$ python billboard.py

Scrape track information from Spotify

$ python loudness_wars.py