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sonos app playing stereo music when I’m playing music on Apple Music app on my apple tv 4k 3rd gen

  • September 16, 2026
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when I’m playing music through Apple Music app that I installed on my Apple TV 4K third generation Sonos app keeps saying stereo PCM, even though the song that I’m playing is lossless on Apple music app. I went to my Apple TV 4K settings under audio and video and disabled/turned off continuous audio connection. I restarted in my Apple TV 4K. My Apple TV 4K is connected to my tv via HDMI to 4K at 120 Hz sport which is HDMI 2.1 port, my Sonos arc is connected to earc port on my LGBXOLED. I have error 300 as surrounds. I recently updated to TvOS 27.0 but no luck.

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106rallye
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  • September 16, 2026

You can only play Atmos from Apple Music via the Sonos app: https://support.sonos.com/en/article/playing-apple-music-lossless-audio-on-sonos

edit: this might no be completely right. See 

I’m not sure how you’d use the Apple TV app to play on Sonos. - maybe via the TV? AirPlay is always stereo.


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  • Enthusiast II
  • September 16, 2026

If the song is lossless but not Atmos, I would expect to see Stereo PCM as that is uncompressed. What do you expect to see there?