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Toto4Ever said:
Looks like John Mayer’s new album, ”Sob Rock”, released this Friday is going to be entirely in Dolby Atmos.
I’ve been listening to the 4 tracks available for the last month, well 3 tracks were released a few years back.
Just put it on & immediately knew something was different & sure enough it is in Dolby Atmos !
John Mayer, is one of my very favourite artists & I was so excited about Friday, now I’m counting the seconds even more ! It sounds great ! So happy !!! :cool::cool::cool::cool:
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Amazing news! Huge Mayer fan here as well!
 
Toto4Ever said:
Looks like John Mayer’s new album, ”Sob Rock”, released this Friday is going to be entirely in Dolby Atmos.
I’ve been listening to the 4 tracks available for the last month, well 3 tracks were released a few years back.
Just put it on & immediately knew something was different & sure enough it is in Dolby Atmos !
John Mayer, is one of my very favourite artists & I was so excited about Friday, now I’m counting the seconds even more ! It sounds great ! So happy !!! :cool::cool::cool::cool:
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Very good album.
Ta for the heads up.
Playing it now...
 
beerking said:
Very good album.
Ta for the heads up.
Playing it now...
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You’re welcome ! That is just the 4 tracks ? Spotify will have it available from midnight, but I don’t think Apple Music update at midnight ?? Well they didn’t recently, when I was waiting for the latest Toto album.
Will have the CD delivered tomorrow, so it’s going to be a John Mayer weekend….& beyond !
 
Toto4Ever said:
You’re welcome ! That is just the 4 tracks ? Spotify will have it available from midnight, but I don’t think Apple Music update at midnight ?? Well they didn’t recently, when I was waiting for the latest Toto album.
Will have the CD delivered tomorrow, so it’s going to be a John Mayer weekend….& beyond !
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Yep just the 4 tracks in Atmos...hopefully the rest will follow very soon.
From listening to those 4 tracks, I reckon this release is going to be right up there, as one of his better albums.
 
beerking said:
Yep just the 4 tracks in Atmos...hopefully the rest will follow very soon.
From listening to those 4 tracks, I reckon this release is going to be right up there, as one of his better albums.
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Yes, I may have jumped the gun, but I’d be surprised if they weren’t all in Dolby Atmos. As I’d posted 3 of the tracks were released awhile ago, as singles, but I’m pleased they’re on this new album.
”Born & Raised” was the first album of his that I bought, fell in love with it, but my favourite album is his last one, “The Search For Everything”. I think this one could be as good, or even better ?
 
Just wanted to provide an update on my experiment of enabling Cloud Library on a copy of my 90K+ library. Everything has actually gone surprisingly well. It never messed with any artwork or tags so after a couple of weeks I decided to turn it on on my primary library.

There were a couple of hiccups with things I had added from Apple Music on the test library and a few tracks some of their tags (album/track names) modified (but ONLY in the iTunes Library, not in the files!). I was able to run an AppleScript that refreshes tags from the files and it fixed them all.

The next glitch was that I started noticing songs that had lost their ratings. Turns out that about 1.5% of my songs with no particular pattern (matched, uploaded, purchased, etc.) had their ratings just "gone". Fortunately I have a backup library on another machine that I meticulously sync ratings (via AppleScripts) and I was able to pull the ratings over from that to restore them.

Since that things are working fine it seems. Not for the feint of heart, I had backups of everything and was ready to bail if anything looked insurmountable.

I sure wish there was any easy way to just not have anything "matched", it really sucks to lose specific masterings when listening via Apple Music, but at least I have them on my server in a lossless Music library so I can play from that when I really care.
 
Something I noticed on my secondary AppleTV system that doesn't have a Dolby Atmos compatible receiver. I don't know if this was mentioned previously, but it will play Atmos tracks in standard surround if your receiver doesn't support Atmos. There is a setting on the AppleTV that is a little odd, Dolby Atmos "off" says it will play in standard Surround sound. I'm not sure what having it "On" would mean on a non-Atmos capable system, maybe it is a force if it just can't detect it for some reason?
 
FooBarFoo said:
Ubertrout,

Sorry to hear that. Too bad, as the Atmos tracks really sound great on the Apple TV 4K.

I’m allergic to bee stings, so I totally get it. Do you have to carry Epinephrine in case you walk by an Apple Store? 😝
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I'm exaggerating slightly - if I see one on sale (or refurb) for Black Friday I might bite the bullet.
 
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