Apple Joining the Atmos streaming game!

[beerking]

Just found this listing:
‎Music: Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos by Oliver  on Apple Music

From here:
Dolby Atmos Spatial and Lossless Audio are now available on Apple Music - Hypebot

 

[IMachine]

I have the most content now under „Entdecken“…it might be „Discover“ in english….
You also can type 3D-Audio in the search function.

 

[jeromejohn]

Some new stuff on there for sure, including Taylor Swift Folklore, Kacey Musgraves' catalog, some Ariana Grande albums ...
were the bonus tracks in Atmos on the Abbey Road Bluray? They are here.

 

[Krmt]

Tested with headphones as well with iphone + airpods pro. Experience seems to vary a bit from track to track. In most of the tracks atmos brings more spacious sound and better separation to tracks but in some it sounds bit more artificial and I preferred more the stereo version. This is depending on the Atmos mix. So ones that sound good with speakers, sound better with headphones and vice versa. Very little actual surround effect and no head tracking (what is there in spatial audio when watching video contents). Overall still positive experience even though doesn't come close to listening with with speakers.

 

[EricKalet]

IT’S TRUE and NO volume issues! Wow oh wow!

 

[pti]

Tested with headphones as well with iphone + airpods pro. Experience seems to vary a bit from track to track. In most of the tracks atmos brings more spacious sound and better separation to tracks but in some it sounds bit more artificial and I preferred more the stereo version. Very little actual surround effect and no head tracking (what is there in spatial audio when watching video contents). Overall still positive experience even though doesn't come close to listening with with speakers.

I had the same results. No head tracking or "surround," but something more akin to an old SRS Wow effect. I am disappointed, so far, at least on iOS and macOS. I'll check later to see if real multichannel lights up in the living room on the latest aTV and Onkyo receiver.

[Update: On AppleTV, there seems to be true multichannel, with some background vocals and ambience going to the rears when the Marvin Gaye Mono-to-Stereo-to-Spatial demo gets to spatial.]

[Update 2: No head tracking until fall, per this: About spatial audio with Dolby Atmos in Apple Music]

I have Lossless turned on and Atmos set to Always on all platforms.

(Also, "spatial audio" is working with the Apple TV app on the iPhone and iPad with head tracking, so that seems set up correctly. On the Mac, I do get real 5.1 from the Apple "TV" app playing movies. Everything in my systems is working for surround/spatial with other sources. Atmos on Music just seems to not be reproduced in multichannel.)

 

[EricKalet]

@edisonbaggins look what is here! FULL album...

 

[atlantasteve]

Wake me up when I can play Apple Music dolby atmos from my ATV gen1 through my receiver.

I woke up this morning and it is alive! Finally, the world will know what we have known for 15+ years: Multi-channel audio rocks!

 

[Krmt]

Tested with headphones as well with iphone + airpods pro. Experience seems to vary a bit from track to track. In most of the tracks atmos brings more spacious sound and better separation to tracks but in some it sounds bit more artificial and I preferred more the stereo version. Very little actual surround effect and no head tracking (what is there in spatial audio when watching video contents). Overall still positive experience even though doesn't come close to listening with with speakers.

Found this one:

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/08/apple-music-dynamic-head-tracking-fall/
So seems that the head tracking might be coming still later. Although how they will implement is is a big question mark..

 

[LennonCobain]

Does FireTV 4K (which supports Apple Music) support this new spatial audio (Atmos) playback? If so, gives me a reason not to buy an Apple TV box.

 

[mrcond]

Now that is music to my ears, Will

Will give it a while longer to see how this shapes up but looks like I shall be investing in an Apple 4K box, soon.

I am in exactly the same boat. Very very promising developments but I will wait for a few more reviews before investing in an AppleTV 4K box.

 

[mrcond]

Does FireTV 4K (which supports Apple Music) support this new spatial audio (Atmos) playback? If so, gives me a reason not to buy an Apple TV box.

My understanding is you will need the Apple TV 4K, it won't work on the FireTV (not yet anyway). I am not yet an Apple Music subscriber so unfortunately cannot test mine.

 

[LennonCobain]

Anyone try “downloading” Atmos content from Apple Music?


How can I get a Dolby Atmos version of a song that I already downloaded to my library?
To get a Dolby Atmos version of a song that you already downloaded from Apple Music, just delete the song and redownload it from the Apple Music catalog.
Make sure that you turn on "Download in Dolby Atmos" in Settings on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Here’s how:

• On your iPhone or iPad, go to Settings > Music, and turn on Download in Dolby Atmos.
• On your Mac, open the Apple Music app. In the menu bar, choose Music > Preferences. Click the General tab, then select Download in Dolby Atmos.

 

[IMachine]

The sound quality compared to Tidal is extremly better. What a wonderful day!

 

[MrSmithers]

It’s a much better experience for sure although I am noticing some good Atmos stuff missing. Like just a few examples…

Kool & The Gang - Celebration
Elton John - Rocket Man
Imagine Dragons - Believer
Donna Summer - Bad Girls
Limp Bizkit - Re-Arranged
The Supremes - Baby Love

Maybe that’s just an upload thing? It’s only just gone live to be honest. Or maybe I selected the wrong song?

 

[alansanchez86]

I just listened to Taylor Swift - Folklore and it sounds amazing. I already loved this record, but the atmos experience took it to another level.

 

[humprof]

Has anyone actually been able to look under the hood and see whether Apple is indeed streaming Atmos tracks at a higher bitrate than Tidal?

 

[EricKalet]

Has anyone actually been able to look under the hood and see whether Apple is indeed streaming Atmos tracks at a higher bitrate than Tidal?

I would love to know this as well. The only thing I can see is 48khz but my AVR doesn’t show bitrate.

 

[dabl]

Has anyone actually been able to look under the hood and see whether Apple is indeed streaming Atmos tracks at a higher bitrate than Tidal?

This may or may not be helpful if you have an Apple TV device

From what I hear this will reveal the Apple Music Atmos is the same 768 kbit/s EC-3 JOC as Tidal and that Apple TV 4K decodes the objects from the Dolby Digital Plus JOC file to mix it with system sounds and transfer it as PCM/Dolby Atmos aka Dolby Metadata Audio Transfer or MAT

 

[J. PUPSTER]

I would love to know this as well. The only thing I can see is 48khz but my AVR doesn’t show bitrate.

Isn't 48khz x 24 bit the top end for Atmos?