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Podcasting8 min read

Podcast LUFS Targets for 2026: Spotify, Apple, YouTube, Amazon Music

Exact integrated loudness and true peak targets for Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Amazon Music and Deezer - and the single master that passes all of them without re-rendering.

Audiobooks9 min read

Audible ACX vs Findaway Voices vs Spotify Audiobooks: Three Specs, One Master

Three audiobook platforms, three different delivery specs, three different rejection reasons. The single master that passes ACX, Findaway and Spotify Audiobooks without re-rendering.

Standards9 min read

EBU R128 vs ATSC A/85 vs ITU BS.1770: What Actually Differs

Three loudness standards, one measurement algorithm, three different target levels. What each one specifies, where they disagree, and which one applies to your delivery.

Narrators8 min read

Room Tone Matching Across Recording Days

Why chapter 3 sounds different from chapter 12 even when nothing in the booth changed - and the recording, editing and measurement workflow that keeps room tone consistent across days, weeks and months of a project.

Loudness7 min read

True Peak vs Sample Peak: Why Your -0.1 dBFS Master Clips on Spotify

Sample peak and true peak are different measurements. The gap is where inter-sample peaks live - and where masters that look clean in a DAW end up clipping after lossy encoding.

ACX7 min read

Why Your ACX Submission Keeps Getting Rejected (And How to Fix Every Reason)

ACX rejections waste hours of re-editing. This guide covers every technical reason files get rejected and shows exactly how to fix each one before you upload.

Articles, not press releases.

Each article is written against a single source of truth - the measurement engine inside DubCheck - not copied from a forum thread from 2014. If there is a topic you wish was here, tell us. We write from the inbox.