Sound is wobbly.

[Rimšiakas]

I've noticed the sound becoming wobbly on some songs or entire albums. Here are some examples:

https://open.spotify.com/track/2CZmBzkAKzimNWmN8RKXk1?si=lImUmPNoS_6pIwoVFNLK_g

The distorted guitar in the intro sounds like it has a rapid, deep vibrato effect. It should not sound like this, it's not that way on the record.

Another example:

https://open.spotify.com/track/47YgDtZfe9vCEKZXihM1l8?si=s4X8XWe1S9qNzZNAei18pg

Same thing can be clearly heard once the distorted guitars start at 0:22.

I've noticed this started maybe a couple of weeks ago and seems like more and more tracks are being affected by this.

It happens on various computers and operating systems, both on the desktop client and the web player, using both high quality playback and normal quality, both with volume normalisation and without.

Can't seem to find this issue reported anywhere yet. Is anyone else having this issue?

[SergioDavid]

Hey @Rimšiakas, welcome to the Community!

Sorry to hear you're having trouble with this. We'll be glad to help out though 🙂

We checked out the tracks and they seem fine to us. Does the issue persist for you if you use different headphones/speakers? 

What about if you listen through Bluetooth? 

You can also try using Spotify Connect to see if it happens under those conditions.

Let us know how it goes.

[Rimšiakas]

Good day, @SergioDavid.

Strange that you can't reproduce it. Yes, it does persist when using different headphones/speakers. Can't try it on bluetooth though - don't have any bluetooth devices.

Here's the recording directly from my sound card, should show the exact way it sounds on my end. It should be easy to notice, the effect is quite overwhelming on the underlying distorted guitar:

https://soundcloud.com/rimsiakas/untitled/s-YcokQ

And here's a properly sounding example for comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGeCcoJZaL8

[Rimšiakas]

Ok, so I found a thread about the same problem

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Content-Questions/Audible-watermarks-degrading-sound-on-Spotify-pre...

It's an audible copyright watermark. Brutal swearwords.