Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple Music Now Rolling Out Support for Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Spatial audio is obviously support because I just listened to Apple demo it works but music does not work. Only 1 track from Apple demo.
I got it to show up on my iPhone 12 mini / iOS 14.6 just now by going into the Music settings and randomly toggling on and off things like "Automatic Downloads" and "Cellular Data." After doing that a few times, the settings for Atmos suddenly showed up.
This did the trick! Spread the word!
Doesn't automatically switch sample rates between 44.1k and this 96k album for me, on macOS
It does on iOS but not macOS
This is not Lossless. This is a separate thing from Lossless which Apple has a really been using since 2019 for AM (and has existed for iTunes for over a decade). They only just now decided to start labeling it.
songs that are lossless will have a dedicated logo that says “lossless”.
I have high res lossless audio on my iPhone now but I did have to go through and remove a bunch of downloaded albums before I could listen to it.
I haven't seen anything in Dolby Atmos yet.
I haven't seen anything in Dolby Atmos yet.
I give up I can see all settings for lossless and Dolby Atmos but not hearing any spatial audio at all on my AirPods Pro.
I turned off sync library. Waited a few seconds, then turned it back on. Atmos!!
This works! Thanks! iPhone 12 Pro Max in NA. Noticeable difference with Airpod Pro. Very cool! Different than say, using a pair of high quality IEMs, but I'm really liking it.
Last edited:
OK, just listened to my first Atomos track: Queensryche's "Silent Lucidity."
Sounds absolutely awful.
The vocals are muddy, the snare drum has lost all of its snap, and the sibilance is painful.
Now, this is just one song, and a couple of weeks ago I did hear Dolby's own Atmos demo of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," which sounded brilliant.
So, I'm guessing this is going to be a mixed bag for a while.
Sounds absolutely awful.
The vocals are muddy, the snare drum has lost all of its snap, and the sibilance is painful.
Now, this is just one song, and a couple of weeks ago I did hear Dolby's own Atmos demo of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," which sounded brilliant.
So, I'm guessing this is going to be a mixed bag for a while.
Finally showed up on my iPad! Classical sounds great with dolby atmos! I’ll test lossless with my sound system tomorrow.
I got it now through my iPad but not my iPhone yet. Test it lossless audio (with my amp/dac) and it sounds great! I am underwhelmed by Atmos Spatial Audio… I think its okay but I prefer lossless much better.