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GuitarSuperstar
Lead Maestro
June 8, 2021

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

  • 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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GuitarSuperstarAuthor
Lead Maestro
July 17, 2021

@boxim We are specifically talking about the Apple TV 4K. You cannot get Dolby Atmos audio from any app on the Apple TV 4K without a TV with HDMI eARC or an HDFury Arcana.

And Dolby Atmos music on the Arc through the Apple TV is worth it. There is a pretty significant difference between an Atmos mix and non-Atmos mix with most songs.


I get the dolby Atmos logo showing with an just an arc connection in Netflix and in apple music with Apple tv

What model TV do you have?

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gunks
Lyricist II
July 17, 2021

@boxim We are specifically talking about the Apple TV 4K. You cannot get Dolby Atmos audio from any app on the Apple TV 4K without a TV with HDMI eARC or an HDFury Arcana.

And Dolby Atmos music on the Arc through the Apple TV is worth it. There is a pretty significant difference between an Atmos mix and non-Atmos mix with most songs.


I get the dolby Atmos logo showing with an just an arc connection in Netflix and in apple music with Apple tv

What model TV do you have?

Have a Hisense 50u7qf

 

GuitarSuperstarAuthor
Lead Maestro
July 17, 2021

Your TV is the first non-eARC TV that I have seen get Atmos audio from an Apple TV 4K. I wonder if your TV is doing some sort of audio conversion. What audio do you get from a non-Dolby Atmos film on Netflix or non-Atmos song on Apple Music?

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gunks
Lyricist II
July 17, 2021

Your TV is the first non-eARC TV that I have seen get Atmos audio from an Apple TV 4K. I wonder if your TV is doing some sort of audio conversion. What audio do you get from a non-Dolby Atmos film on Netflix or non-Atmos song on Apple Music?


For non Atmos stuff 

Music and youtube  and BBC iplayer is stereo PCM 

Netflix and Disney+  is Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 (even on non 5.1 content) 

Amazon switched between DDP 5.1 and Stereo PCM depending on the content 

 

GuitarSuperstarAuthor
Lead Maestro
July 17, 2021

Your TV is the first non-eARC TV that I have seen get Atmos audio from an Apple TV 4K. I wonder if your TV is doing some sort of audio conversion. What audio do you get from a non-Dolby Atmos film on Netflix or non-Atmos song on Apple Music?


For non Atmos stuff 

Music and youtube  and BBC iplayer is stereo PCM 

Netflix and Disney+  is Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 (even on non 5.1 content) 

Amazon switched between DDP 5.1 and Stereo PCM depending on the content 

 

Interesting. On the Apple TV 4K, non-Atmos content that is DD+ will usually play as Multichannel PCM to the Arc. Do you mind posting your Apple TV and TV audio settings?

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dan8558
Prominent Collaborator I
July 24, 2021

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.
 

I’m using Apple Music on the Apple TV, but don’t see Riders on the Storm or Rocketman in Dolby Atmos. It’s Lossless only. Is there a trick to finding this? I’m using an Apple TV connected to a receiver that supports Atmos.

dan8558
Prominent Collaborator I
July 25, 2021

I was recently digging through the Apple TV audio  settings, so maybe I turned off Atmos by mistake. I’ll check in a couple days when I’m home…

Kumar
July 25, 2021

A question: when I heard spatial audio via AirPod Pro earphones the other day, the instant switchover demo that Apple Music has provided, made for instantly audible differences between stereo and spatial. I am not saying here that spatial was better, but it was certainly very audibly different.

Does listening to the same demo on Arc throw up the same audible difference, to the same extent?

dan8558
Prominent Collaborator I
July 26, 2021

@GuitarSuperstar I’ve checked my Apple TV and it does play songs in Dolby Atmos through my system, but Rocketman and Riders on the Storm don’t appear to have an Atmos version. Are you sure you didn’t just listen to a lossless version?

GuitarSuperstarAuthor
Lead Maestro
July 26, 2021

@GuitarSuperstar I’ve checked my Apple TV and it does play songs in Dolby Atmos through my system, but Rocketman and Riders on the Storm don’t appear to have an Atmos version. Are you sure you didn’t just listen to a lossless version?

I listen to most of my Dolby Atmos music on TIDAL, but “Riders on the Storm” is also available with Dolby Atmos on Apple Music:

 

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