Listening to in Dolby Atmos Streaming, via Tidal/Apple/Amazon

[austinsignal]

First single from a very cool upcoming album from Montreal artist, Lia Kuri. Also available from IAA.

 

[PurpleMoustache]

A couple notable new releases this week.
The full album from the songstress behind Expresso:

Jon Anderson’s latest:

The latest from indie rockers Fontaines D.C.

And this interesting seeming new age flute album:

 

[dapaladi]

tony levin first single from his album "bringing it down to the bass" album that will be released on september 13, on blu-ray too.
the single includes manu katche' on drums, dominic miller on guitar and alex foster on sax.

 

[dapaladi]

"illuminator", the new album from new york shoegaze band "gift" has bern released today in atmos too.

 

[LennonCobain]

 

[SomethingAnything]

I'm brand new to streaming music, let alone Atmos music. As I don't have an Apple TV, I went with Tidal (after a brief look at Amazon Music which I found to be wanting). Tidal is a bit glitchy (it sometimes forgets to play Atmos, and I have to restart the TV to get it to remember).

Anyway, the first album I have played, after stumbling upon it, is Glass Animals's I Love You So F***king Much (came out in July). At times, like a mix of power pop and psychedelia. Two stand-out songs in Atmos are Wonderful Nothing and A Tear in Space (Airlock). Overall, it's a fun album and mix, if a little too much autotune used at times. I see they have a second album in Atmos, which I must check out at some point.

Sorry, I don't have a pretty pic for you. Not sure how everyone else is doing that. (Maybe it's easier with Apple!)

 

[Franck]

It’s here!!! (In the US)

How the atmos version was made

 

[GabeL]

I am very new to streaming Apple Music; what’s the best way to search for Atmos mixed albums? Thanks

 

[PurpleMoustache]

I am very new to streaming Apple Music; what’s the best way to search for Atmos mixed albums? Thanks

Well… that’s the problem… there kind of isn’t?

Apple maintains their own playlist and human curated list of albums/songs in various genres in the Spatial Audio “Genre” page: https://music.apple.com/us/curator/apple-music-spatial-audio/1564180390

But this thread we’re posting in now will frequently have albums that don’t show up there (Flaming Lips’s Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, a fantastic mix has yet to show up there, for example).

Quite a few people including myself use the trifecta of tools by Ben Dodson:
His iOS app Music Library Tracker will scan your Apple Music library and see if anything got updated with atmos, however it is paid and if you don’t open the app regularly it just kinda… stops. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/music-library-tracker/id1062583712

The data from that app, however, feeds two free web based resources. His Spatial Audio Finder will let you search by artist to see what, if anything is available from that Artist in Dolby Atmos or Dolby Audio (legacy quad, 5.1, 7.1 mixes). https://bendodson.com/projects/spatial-audio-finder/

And he has a website that showcases the results of those app scans every couple of hours, the Spatial Audio Database: https://spatialaudiodb.com/, which shows the newest of new Atmos mixes as they are detected by his tools.

My understanding is at some point he plans to combine the Finder and the Database into one tool but that hasn’t happened yet.

 

[GabeL]

Well… that’s the problem… there kind of isn’t?

Apple maintains their own playlist and human curated list of albums/songs in various genres in the Spatial Audio “Genre” page: https://music.apple.com/us/curator/apple-music-spatial-audio/1564180390

But this thread we’re posting in now will frequently have albums that don’t show up there (Flaming Lips’s Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, a fantastic mix has yet to show up there, for example).

Quite a few people including myself use the trifecta of tools by Ben Dodson:
His iOS app Music Library Tracker will scan your Apple Music library and see if anything got updated with atmos, however it is paid and if you don’t open the app regularly it just kinda… stops. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/music-library-tracker/id1062583712

The data from that app, however, feeds two free web based resources. His Spatial Audio Finder will let you search by artist to see what, if anything is available from that Artist in Dolby Atmos or Dolby Audio (legacy quad, 5.1, 7.1 mixes). https://bendodson.com/projects/spatial-audio-finder/

And he has a website that showcases the results of those app scans every couple of hours, the Spatial Audio Database: https://spatialaudiodb.com/, which shows the newest of new Atmos mixes as they are detected by his tools.

My understanding is at some point he plans to combine the Finder and the Database into one tool but that hasn’t happened yet.

Thanks very much; I was trying to locate the Tom Petty Wildflowers Atmos (which I thought had been put out on Apple Music) but I had no luck.

 

[Cheezmo]

Thanks very much; I was trying to locate the Tom Petty Wildflowers Atmos (which I thought had been put out on Apple Music) but I had no luck.

The Wildflowers original album tracks on this Super Deluxe Edition are in Atmos.

 

[GabeL]

The Wildflowers original album tracks on this Super Deluxe Edition are in Atmos.

Can I ask if the Atmos version only shows up on an Apple TV device? I don’t get the Atmos stream on my TV app. Thanks

 

[Cheezmo]

Can I ask if the Atmos version only shows up on an Apple TV device? I don’t get the Atmos stream on my TV app. Thanks

Probably a few factors there. What TV, what it outputs to the Receiver, how they are connected, etc.

 

[GabeL]

Probably a few factors there. What TV, what it outputs to the Receiver, how they are connected, etc.

That’s what I’m thinking too. It’s a Samsung TV connected back to the receiver with an IR cable.

 

[Cheezmo]

That’s what I’m thinking too. It’s a Samsung TV connected back to the receiver with an IR cable.

IR? Not even sure what that means. Needs to be HDMI.

 

[GabeL]

IR? Not even sure what that means. Needs to be HDMI.

Sorry, optical cable. I will have to look into adding an HDMI out. Thanks

 

[scooob]

Sorry, optical cable. I will have to look into adding an HDMI out. Thanks

If you don't have an Apple TV box, just the Apple Music app on your Samsung TV: I don't believe you can stream spatial audio (Atmos etc.) from that app, regardless of which cable you use to connect the TV to your receiver. Recently, the Apple Music app for LG televisions was given the ability to stream spatial audio, but as far as I know, that is only for LG TVs, and only certain models at that.

I have a fairly recent LG TV, which is connected to my (very old, with no HDMI ports) receiver by an optical cable, and I can play streaming Atmos through the LG Apple Music app with that set up. Maybe the Samsung version of the Apple Music app will be given this capability at some point?

Incidentally, I also have an Apple TV box, which is connected to the TV via HDMI, but even that audio signal gets to the receiver from the TV's optical cable. I've streamed Apple spatial audio just fine that way, for years.

 

[GabeL]

If you don't have an Apple TV box, just the Apple Music app on your Samsung TV: I don't believe you can stream spatial audio (Atmos etc.) from that app, regardless of which cable you use to connect the TV to your receiver. Recently, the Apple Music app for LG televisions was given the ability to stream spatial audio, but as far as I know, that is only for LG TVs, and only certain models at that.

I have a fairly recent LG TV, which is connected to my (very old, with no HDMI ports) receiver by an optical cable, and I can play streaming Atmos through the LG Apple Music app with that set up. Maybe the Samsung version of the Apple Music app will be given this capability at some point?

Incidentally, I also have an Apple TV box, which is connected to the TV via HDMI, but even that audio signal gets to the receiver from the TV's optical cable. I've streamed Apple spatial audio just fine that way, for years.

Thanks, I may also just move my Apple TV box down to test things out before doing anything too drastic

 

[cdheer]

If you don't have an Apple TV box, just the Apple Music app on your Samsung TV: I don't believe you can stream spatial audio (Atmos etc.) from that app, regardless of which cable you use to connect the TV to your receiver. Recently, the Apple Music app for LG televisions was given the ability to stream spatial audio, but as far as I know, that is only for LG TVs, and only certain models at that.

I have a fairly recent LG TV, which is connected to my (very old, with no HDMI ports) receiver by an optical cable, and I can play streaming Atmos through the LG Apple Music app with that set up. Maybe the Samsung version of the Apple Music app will be given this capability at some point?

Incidentally, I also have an Apple TV box, which is connected to the TV via HDMI, but even that audio signal gets to the receiver from the TV's optical cable. I've streamed Apple spatial audio just fine that way, for years.

You aren't getting full spatial audio that way; optical is limited to (lossy) Dolby/DTS 5.1; streaming Atmos requires Dolby Digital+.

 

[scooob]

You aren't getting full spatial audio that way; optical is limited to (lossy) Dolby/DTS 5.1; streaming Atmos requires Dolby Digital+.

Okay, I should have mentioned that I only have a 5.1 system, so I hear Atmos streams downmixed. But are you saying that the 5.1 rendering I'm getting through my non-Atmos receiver is more lossy through the optical cable than it would be if the receiver (without Dolby Digital+ capability) was connected directly to the Apple TV box via HDMI?