why a bunch of albums got remastered in the late 2010s and early 2020s

Question

I could be like making this up in my head but it seems like from 2016 to maybe 2022 there was a wave of remasters for albums that came out as late as the late 2000s. What suddenly changed about recording or playback equipment that made those remasters necessary?

In: Technology

Answer 1

Streaming apps (like Spotify) do things to songs that are uploaded that end up making changes on how the songs sound like (compression & signal processing).

The remastering wave is largely due to adapting to these standards as streaming became the default way to listen to music. Many of the old recordings were not meant to be listened through spotify and didn’t sound like the way they were intended to be heard, hence the remastering.