Audiomack, Boomplay and JioSaavn loudness: what is published and how to master

October 8, 2026 · All posts

If you release in Africa or India, Spotify and YouTube are only part of the picture. Audiomack and Boomplay are where many listeners in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa play music, and JioSaavn is one of the largest services in India. So what loudness should a master hit for them?

The honest answer: none of the three publishes a number. Plenty of sites list "about −14 LUFS" for each of them, but we could not find a single document from Audiomack, Boomplay or JioSaavn that says so. Here is what we could confirm, and how to master when the target is unknown.

What is published

For Apple Music, YouTube, TIDAL, Amazon Music and Deezer — with a note on which figures are published and which are measured — see streaming loudness targets for every platform.

"Not published" also means we do not know whether these services normalize loudness at all. If one of them plays every file at its own level, a quieter master simply plays quieter than the songs around it.

What we could confirm about delivery

• Boomplay takes releases through distributors; independent artists do not upload to it directly. The distributors' Boomplay pages ask for a lossless master — WAV or FLAC.
• Audiomack lets artists upload their own tracks as well as receive them from distributors.
• JioSaavn: we found no public delivery specification. Independent releases usually reach it through a distributor, and the distributor's spec is the one to follow.

Whichever route you use, upload a lossless file (WAV or FLAC), not an MP3 made from it: every service makes its own compressed copy, and a second round of compression costs detail and can raise the true peak.

One master that is safe on all of them

With no published targets, aim for a master that works whether the service normalizes or not:

1. Integrated loudness around −14 LUFS if you want the most dynamics on services that normalize — Spotify, YouTube and the others in our table.
2. Up to about −10 LUFS if your genre is usually released loud and you care most about services that may not normalize. In that case keep true peak below −2 dBTP, because louder masters overshoot more when they are encoded.
3. True peak below −1 dBTP in every case. This is the one rule every published spec agrees on.
4. Do not master much quieter than −16 LUFS unless the music needs it (classical, ambient): on a service that does not turn quiet tracks up, it will sound small next to everything else.

Check the file you are about to upload with the free LUFS checker — it shows integrated loudness, true peak and loudness range.

Releasing a Suno song on these services

Most Suno exports are already close to streaming loudness: in our measurement of 248 Suno exports the median was −14.3 LUFS. The usual problem is dynamics and the generator's marks, not level. A practical order:

1. Download the WAV, not the MP3.
2. Clean the AI artifacts first — cleanup never spends a credit, and here is what it changes in numbers.
3. Master the cleaned file, then check it with the LUFS checker before you hand it to your distributor.
4. If the service or your distributor asks whether the song uses AI, answer honestly.

We will update this page

If Audiomack, Boomplay or JioSaavn publish a loudness target, or we can measure one reliably, we will add it here with the source. Checked 8 October 2026.