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Apple Music Now Rolling Out Support for Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio

For those playing with music settings and loosing it over and over again (me)… it’s not so much toggeling cellular data, it’s the automatic download that re-enables the settings to magically appear.

I’m not doing anything crazy as to in house testing yet - just trying to accomplish reliability through wireless lossless… can’t wait for real testing amongst my audiofiles to give us a true Thor hammer of knowledge. But oh my the possibilities!!!!

I might finally get my brother to convert! (After I steal back that HomePod I gifted him for Christmas because I need that space gray beauty for that awkward 7th room… first offer is the stupid Amazon thing I got with my Iota security system….last offer is my first born son)
 
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The effect is quite subtle, especially for the Top-40 crap.

Strongest effect so far out of the spatial audio playlist i had with "Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express"
EDIT: "The Doors - Riders On The Storm" is done very well!
 
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theNatest said:
For those playing with music settings and loosing it over and over again (me)… it’s not so much toggeling cellular data, it’s the automatic download that re-enables the settings to magically appear.

I’m not doing anything crazy as to in house testing yet - just trying to accomplish reliability through wireless lossless… can’t wait for real testing amongst my audiofiles to give us a true Thor hammer of knowledge. But oh my the possibilities!!!!

I might finally get my brother to convert! (After I steal back that HomePod I gifted him for Christmas because I need that space gray beauty for that awkward 7th room… first offer is the stupid Amazon thing I got with my Iota security system….last offer is my first born son)
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Wow thank you!!! I just got it to trigger to show up! Apple support didn’t know what to do! This must be a bug!
 
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aphex2000 said:
The effect is quite subtle, especially for the Top-40 crap.

Strongest effect so far out of the spatial audio playlist i had with "Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express"
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Yes, haven’t been impressed overall. Back when initially launched I was impressed with Metallica’s S&M2 concert film, but haven’t seen much like that in actual Atmos Apple Music track. Even the audio version of S&M2 is not supported. Might be just that the generic effect for iTunes 5.1 films is just more obvious while this one is more subtle to preserve closer do the original mix
 
scrobert said:
Santeria - Sublime - those vocals - NICE
Weezer - Buddy Holly - noooooo, sounds awful
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I just listened to Styx Renegade and I liked it better with spatial audio off. But The Jackson 5’s I Want You back sounded way better with spatial audio. I wish there was a way to tell Apple Music which you prefer so it would turn off spatial audio on tracks where you don’t want It.
 
I found that turning Sync Library off for a few seconds then on triggered the update.

One thing I’ve noticed straight away is singles on pre-release albums are not available in lossless yet
 
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I noticed I have lossless with AirPods
 

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I would think it is a generic description though since it says "up to"?
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Would be great if it shows actual bit rate of that specific album but I don't think that is the case.
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It does show you the rate of the specific album if you click on the "Lossless" logo above where the play/pause button is and it brings this up:

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Check out Dolby Atmos on the music videos, it doesn’t reference it but you can hear the difference
 

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dtuck90 said:
I found that turning Sync Library off for a few seconds then on triggered the update.

One thing I’ve noticed straight away is singles on pre-release albums are not available in lossless yet
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This worked, then lossless settings disappeared for me again…idk what to do
 
My iPhone 11 Pro Max and Mac Mini M1 just got switched on in Oz. The iPod can go back to gathering dust LOL.
 
Finally just randomly appearing. All these toggling tricks didn't do a darn thing. This sounds really great. :D
 
Did anyone realise it toggles automatically between Dolby Atmos and Lossless for song by song, it’s preference is Dolby Atmos though
 
Tom Sawyer by Rush sounds pretty cool in Dolby Atmos, some other songs sound awful.

I like it. It’s a shame we can’t listen lossless on AirPods.

So, what setting should I use if I only listen via AirPods? No lossless at all?
 
Hmmmmmnnnnn, is Dolby Atmos on AirPods Max meant to be a lot quieter than non-Dolby Atmos?

I've got my volume on 100% listening to Blinding Lights and it feels like the same volume as 60% volume without Dolby Atmos.
 
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