Prepare Your Music for Spotify
Build a balanced master for Spotify playback without treating one loudness number as a release guarantee.
Technical requirements
What Spotify requires
Choose the destination in the mastering console before you render.
Upload. Shape. Preview.
Upload
Drop your finished WAV, MP3, FLAC, M4A, AIFF, OGG, or AAC file up to 200 MB.
Shape
Choose the genre, destination, and loudness profile for the song.
Preview
Hear Original against Mastered. Membership is requested only when you download.
What we do for your Spotify release
Balance loudness with dynamics
Spotify may adjust playback level, so excessive limiting does not guarantee a stronger result. Preserve transient impact, tonal balance, and peak headroom.
Choose Spotify as the destination
The canonical mastering flow includes 8 release destinations, 8 genre choices, and 3 loudness profiles. The main uploader accepts audio files up to 200 MB.
Compare first, export when approved
Upload, configure, process, and switch between Original and Mastered before joining. An active €4.99/month membership unlocks WAV and MP3 download and export.
Spotify in depth
Normalization is playback behavior
Spotify can adjust playback gain to reduce loudness jumps between songs. Its Normal setting is commonly discussed around -14 LUFS, but that is not an upload acceptance threshold and listeners can use different settings. Preserve punch, tonal balance, and peak headroom instead of chasing one number.
Your distributor supplies the release source
Artists normally deliver music to Spotify through a distributor. Spotify creates playback versions from that source, so submit the cleanest lossless master your distributor currently accepts and keep sensible true-peak headroom for later encoding.
Questions about mastering for Spotify
Does Spotify master my music for me?
Spotify can normalize and encode playback, but that is not the same as mastering your release. Submit a finished master through your distributor.
What file should I prepare for Spotify?
Follow your distributor's current requirements. A clean lossless master is generally the strongest source for downstream encoding.
How long does MixMasterAI processing take?
Processing time depends on track length, source format, device performance, and current service conditions. The interface shows progress while the master is created.
Can I try the master before joining?
Yes. Upload, settings, processing, and A/B comparison come first. An account with active €4.99/month membership is required only when you choose WAV or MP3 download or export.