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When Apple launches spatial audio on its streaming service in June, Apple Music on Android devices will not include Dolby Atmos support. The MySmartPrice website received confirmation from Apple India that Apple Music’s Dolby Atmos support cannot bridge the gap between Apple and the Android ecosystem.
For anyone confused by the dazzling audio terminology announced by Apple Music on Monday, Dolby Atmos is based on surround sound technology that first appeared in movie theaters, but can now be found in many home theaters. It improved the standard 5.1 and 7.1 channel settings, added additional channels, which sounded like coming from overhead and around, thus bringing a more immersive experience. The sound virtualization technology was later used by audio Engineers used to enrich the recordings of original and Remix music tracks.
Spatial audio based on Dolby Atmos is a way that Apple provides similar immersive 3D audio to listeners through hardware. Spatial audio uses Dolby Atmos signals and applies its own directional audio filter to make the sound appear to be coming from the listener’s surroundings. However, as mentioned earlier, it only works on Apple devices and Apple headsets, such as AirPods Pro and AirPods Max, and spatial audio music does not have the dynamic head tracking features like the original soundtrack of a movie.
It is still unclear why Dolby Atmos is not available to Apple Music users on the Android system, but it may be due to Apple’s lack of control over the hardware of the mobile phones and tablets used, or this feature will be released later. However, the higher quality lossless audio function announced by Apple this week will be provided on the Android version of Apple Music. This is the advantage of the Android platform, because some devices have built-in more advanced professional decoding chips, which can easily achieve 24bit 192kHz or more. Strong DSD decoding ability.