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title: Audit Audio Track Loudness and True Peak Headroom for Broadcast Standards — Free
description: Mastering podcast episodes and streaming audio for Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube requires hitting strict loudness standards, but improper limiter settings lead to platform volume penalties and digital inter-sample distortion. Enter your audio track integrated LUFS, maximum true peak readings, and platform standards to audit compliance and flag true peak violations.
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# Audit Audio Track Loudness and True Peak Headroom for Broadcast Standards — Free

Mastering podcast episodes and streaming audio for Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube requires hitting strict loudness standards, but improper limiter settings lead to platform volume penalties and digital inter-sample distortion. Enter your audio track integrated LUFS, maximum true peak readings, and platform standards to audit compliance and flag true peak violations.

**Free and complete.** This guide is a standalone free tool — no account, no card, anywhere. The only paid option is one optional extra outcome: $4 one-time. Nothing in the free tier is gated.

## Who it's for

Podcasters, audio mastering engineers, sound designers, and broadcast producers auditing audio distribution specs.

## What's free

- one complete unwatermarked loudness-compliance board run in the app
- three labeled samples and unlimited article-demo calculations
- complete result text and a user-triggered input-state link

## Optional paid add-on

**$4 one-time.**

- unlimited subsequent loudness-compliance board app calculations after a local convenience signal
- print the loudness-compliance board with visible assumptions and its safety boundary
- CSV of the displayed LUFS and row workings; conditional estimate uses your manual-retyping minutes
- five local reading summaries (headline/count/time), not saved full inputs or cross-device backups

## Sources & verification

- Tool: GratisAI local-first instrument (no key, no account)
- Primary source: the free tool itself (local-first, no external dependency)
- Last verification: 2026-09-30 (green)

## Use it

- Interactive guide: https://gratis-ai.pages.dev/articles/audio-podcast-loudness-true-peak-margin.html
- Companion app: https://gratis-ai.pages.dev/apps/audio-podcast-loudness-true-peak-margin.html
- This machine-readable mirror: /mirrors/audio-podcast-loudness-true-peak-margin.md

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