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

[LeperLord]

As far as we know, these are not simple upmixes. Dolby contracted a bunch of engineers and had them mix a couple thousand tracks in Atmos, which explains the scattershot approach to the back catalog (5 Queen songs, misc Motown, a couple Doors songs, just Rocketman from Elton John, and so on and so forth). Tidal actually lets you check on the mixing engineer on a lot of tracks if you're curious.

The Atmos tracks on Tidal are way too quiet, which has been a problem since the beginning, but that is a Tidal problem, not an Atmos problem.

The Future Bits and Abbey Road tracks on Apple Music are the same mixes as the Blu-rays, just at lower bitrates. This bothers some people a lot, others not so much. I echo everything Beerking said a couple posts up. In the long-term I think this is a good thing for the survival of surround formats and enjoy sampling a lot of surround music that I never would have tried before.

"Tidal actually lets you check on the mixing engineer on a lot of tracks if you're curious. "

You actually answered a question i have had for a while now

Being,how are all these folks posting about the mixing particulars etc,on Apple music?

They were obviously from Tidal music ?

i wish Apple had this option

 

[Cheezmo]

Seems us Canuckleheads are left out of the loop on this one on Apple as far as i see

Until recently i had no idea Apple did this where they split up what country gets what releases

i have noticed this a lot lately

Not Apple, the labels. I'm sure Apple would love to make everything available everywhere.

 

[humprof]

Lyle Lovett - 12th of June

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2 tracks available from the upcoming album, released (somewhat ironically) on the 13th of May. 'Pants Is Overrated' and title track '12th of June'.

Immersive mix by Chuck Ainley. Great mixes and a welcome return! Maybe they'll be Atmos mixes of the Dire Straits debut and Making Movies albums sometime?

Apple Music - 12th of June by Lyle Lovett
Tidal - https://tidal.com/browse/track/225827461 / https://tidal.com/browse/track/225827459

Classic Lyle Lovett sound, with great mixes from Ainley. But what's up with Lovett's voice these days? His singing was always mannered, but on both of those preview tracks, especially "Pants," it sounds like he's choking out almost every phrase.

 

[haikubass]

Trombone Shorty - Lifted
This has all the angles to fit just in nicely for me, yet it sounds quite underwhelming in 5.1 here...
https://music.apple.com/cz/album/lifted/1608956047https://tidal.com/album/225862037Mixed by Steve Genewick

 

[Ephi82]

It’s interesting that the new Beach Boys expanded Sounds of Summer will utilize digital extraction technology to improve stereo mixes and perhaps also factor into the Atmos mixes.

Hopefully the digital extraction results are well received and give The Beatles some motivation to utilize it as well.

The Beatles remixes have already utilized this technology.

 

[LennonCobain]

The Beatles remixes have already utilized this technology.

I thought Giles Martin didn’t think the technology was good enough yet which is why we haven’t seen super deluxe editions of Revolver, Rubber Soul, etc?

 

[woody]

This sounds good. Love me some Neneh Cherry.

Sia collaboration the better track IMHO:

https://music.apple.com/au/album/the-versions/1619364236
Only two tracks released so far…..

 

[humprof]

@fredblue gets his wish: the dreamy Thomas Rhett is Apple Music's new Featured Artist:
https://music.apple.com/us/room/1577883010

 

[bluebeardscastle]

I thought Giles Martin didn’t think the technology was good enough yet which is why we haven’t seen super deluxe editions of Revolver, Rubber Soul, etc?

He'd basically said that the technology wasn't good enough for pre Pepper material - because so much had been bounced to single tracks and it was hard to 'de-mix'- especially the old two track songs.

Since Giles said that they have atmos-ed the '1' album. Some songs are better than others on it and I think this is what will happen with the Beach Boys songs. Basically, the older the song the less good it is, I think is the general '1' consensus?

My hope is that it'll be pretty good by the time you get to the Beach Boys stuff recorded '66 '67 + beyond.

 

[perzon57]

Rammstein - Zeit, whole album out in Atmos on Apple Music, now Dicke Titten.

 

[perzon57]

Willie Nelson - A Beautiful Time on Apple Music, good music and good mix.

 

[haikubass]

Silverstein - Misery Made Me
Here's your fix if you missed heavy guitars. I mean really heavy guitars. 4 tracks so far.
https://music.apple.com/cz/album/misery-made-me/1600033162

 

[beerking]

Silverstein - Misery Made Me
Here's your fix if you missed heavy guitars. I mean really heavy guitars. 4 tracks so far.
https://music.apple.com/cz/album/misery-made-me/1600033162

This one is a full bodied 10 from me....

 

[haikubass]

PSY - PSY 9th
I'm crazy and I know it!
https://music.apple.com/cz/album/psy-9th/1620871679

 

[beerking]

Something for the weekend sir?

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/luz/1614238472?ls

 

[beerking]

And there's more....
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/quest-for-fire/1614246352?ls

 

[PurpleMoustache]

And if you want a decidedly older style of electronic music:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/thetis-2086/1605186807

 

[humprof]

This sounds good. Love me some Neneh Cherry.

Sia collaboration the better track IMHO:

https://music.apple.com/au/album/the-versions/1619364236
Only two tracks released so far…..

I'd rather have Atmos mixes of the original versions. Can't believe they took a bumpin' New Jack Swinger like "Buffalo Stance" and turned it into a dreary, generic contemporary r&b snoozer.

 

[humprof]

This is a lot of fun. Grandkids of the Velvets (figuratively speaking), but funnier and, uh, more energetic.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/wet-leg/1594742869https://www.npr.org/2021/12/01/1058326127/wet-leg-tiny-desk-home-concerthttps://www.npr.org/2022/04/09/1091730938/lets-talk-about-wet-leg

A review by Amanda Petrusich that captures this band's appeal perfectly:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/11/the-glorious-lightness-of-wet-legs-rock

 

[humprof]

I just posted about the imminent Norah Jones 20th-Anniversary Come Away With Me SDE in the "Music Matters (Non-Surround)" thread--because the physical release will include neither the old 5.1 mix nor last year's Atmos mix. (This is part of an established trend, I know, but to paraphrase Arthur Dent: "this is obviously some strange usage of the term 'Super Deluxe' that I wasn't previously aware of.")
https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...-20th-anniversary-super-deluxe-edition.32349/
The streaming version of the entire set is supposed to be in Atmos, however:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/1610791246

All tracks are up today. Chalk it up to expectation bias, but it seems to me that this version of the original album has a fuller Atmos mix than the one it got last year, even if that's accomplished by putting the lead vocal in all four corners at the same volume, plus a lot of instrumental bleed from fronts to rears (balanced so that you feel like you're in the middle of the band, though). Atmospherics in the heights give the whole thing a little lift. Good news is that demos, outtakes, and alternate versions are also in Atmos, there's some great material there, and those mixes--at least the ones with a full band--are more discrete. Still miffed we're not getting a Blu-Ray, though.