Lead Maestro

Dolby Atmos on Apple Music with Apple TV 4K & Sonos Arc

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June 8, 2021
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Spatial Audio/Dolby Atmos music is now available on Apple Music through the Apple TV 4K. It’s exciting to see more streaming services adopt these higher resolution audio formats.

To play Atmos music through the Arc, be sure to have a TV with HDMI eARC or an HDFury Arcana and tvOS 14.6 installed. On the Apple TV 4K (1st Gen) model, go to Settings > Apps > Music and set Dolby Atmos to Automatic and Audio Quality to Lossless.

Enjoy!

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Guyincognito76

Prominent Collaborator I

Sounds good on my Beam 5.0 setup too.

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theadz01

Contributor I

Really sounds amazing on my Sonos 5.1 setup through my Apple TV. Hopefully Sonos will support this natively soon

This song in particular

Kraftwerk - Tour De France

Guyincognito76

Prominent Collaborator I

Really sounds amazing on my Sonos 5.1 setup through my Apple TV. Hopefully Sonos will support this natively soon

This song in particular

Kraftwerk - Tour De France

Not my thing at all, but I think ‘I’m coming out’ by Diana Ross sounds amazing through headphones, especially.

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GuitarSuperstarAuthor

Lead Maestro

Really sounds amazing on my Sonos 5.1 setup through my Apple TV. Hopefully Sonos will support this natively soon

This song in particular

Kraftwerk - Tour De France

Kraftwerk’s 3-D: The Catalogue is widely considered to be one of the best Dolby Atmos albums ever released. The Dolby TrueHD/Atmos Blu-ray disc of the album/concert is incredible. I don’t know if the entire album is available in Atmos on Apple Music yet, but it is on Tidal. The song “Geiger Counter/Radioactivity (3-D)” produces some of the best height effects I have ever heard from my Arc.

Some of my other favorite songs in Atmos are “Rocketman” by Elton John, “Riders On the Storm” by The Doors, “Come Away With Me” by Norah Jones, and “Drive” by R.E.M.

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wilwong829

Enthusiast II

For now I just wonder if there’s any other ways to enjoy spatial audio with the SONOS system? I mean other than via APPLE TV 4K… I’ve tried by airplay from my iPad Mini but just got PCM stereo 2.0.

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codephilip

Lyricist III

I’m not sure but if you go to Settings > Music > Dolby Atmos and set it to “Always on” on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, it sounds different when you stream through AirPlay to the Sonos speakers.

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wilwong829

Enthusiast II

I’m not sure but if you go to Settings > Music > Dolby Atmos and set it to “Always on” on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, it sounds different when you stream through AirPlay to the Sonos speakers.

Ok, thanks and I will check it tonight. :)

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boxim

Lyricist I

I just tried airplay through Apple after adjusting settings. i didn’t listen but the DA symbol was on so i assume the ARC was receiving Atmos

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codephilip

Lyricist III

Yes, I’m 99% sure that it works that way

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GuitarSuperstarAuthor

Lead Maestro

I’m pretty sure that AirPlay doesn’t support Dolby Atmos audio. And the only way to listen to Dolby Atmos music from Apple Music on the Sonos Arc is through the Apple Music app on an Apple TV 4K connected to a TV with HDMI eARC or an HDFury Arcana.

From Apple:

“Audio that you stream from Apple TV with AirPlay doesn't support Dolby Atmos or surround sound.”

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204069

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