Music has gotten louder over the last 10 years, but that doesn't mean it's gotten better. In fact, the opposite is true, according to a record mastering engineer speaking on NPR's "All Things Considered." Dynamic compression of music softens the loud parts of music and magnifies the quiet parts, effectively making a song jump out of iPod or radio speakers at a greater volume. Over the last decade, this has become an increasingly common practice. At the same time, the digital compression that allows an MP3 player to hold so many songs takes away some of the nuances of the original recording and introduces a lot of extra noise.
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