Music streaming on Apple Music in 5.1 (Dolby Audio)

[Franck]

tvOS 17.1 appears to have broken Dolby Audio playback (nothing from the rears). Looking for confirmation.

I saw there is an iOS 17.1.1 update.. I guess a tvOS one is coming soon too.

 

[Cheezmo]

the Rear channels are lumped in with the Front channels on my setup

Looks like the 17.2 beta breaks it. I tested on a 17.1 AppleTV and it still played back fine.

Send feedback quick so they can fix it before the 17.2 release (but I wouldn't hold my breath, when they break something like this it usually takes 6 months or so to fix).

 

[fredblue]

fwiw the latest Beta update 17.2 (21K5341f) hasn't corrected the Dolby Audio 5.1/7.1 channel mapping issue

 

[Cheezmo]

fwiw the latest Beta update 17.2 (21K5341f) hasn't corrected the Dolby Audio 5.1/7.1 channel mapping issue

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On the good news side my Feedback is showing this.

I almost never see "similar reports" filled in (it always says "none") so this one at least might get some attention.

 

[Cheezmo]

Looks like 17.2 beta 3 (you may have to choose the Developer Beta to get it, probably goes Public Beta tomorrow) fixes the Dolby Audio playback problem.

 

[PurpleMoustache]

Can confirm the issue is fixed (or at the very least Edgar Winter’s Frankenstein has sound coming out of the rear speakers) on tvOS 17.2 (21K5348f). Just checked for an update and it showed up

 

[FooBarFoo]

@Cheezmo -That fix was the shortest 6 months of my life, but after Covid being the longest decade, I have lost all sense of time.

Thanks for posting feedback and asking others to do the same.

 

[Cheezmo]

@Cheezmo -That fix was the shortest 6 months of my life, but after Covid being the longest decade, I have lost all sense of time.

Thanks for posting feedback and asking others to do the same.

Yeah, I'm surprised the fix is making it into 17.2. They also fixed Listening History syncing in the latest beta.

Now if only the Computers app on the AppleTV would play hi-res ALAC from my Music library again like pre 17.0 did. (Currently hangs on anything over 24/48). I can't even remember how many releases (tvOS 14?) ago they broke multichannel ALAC playback in the Computers app. I've given up on that one.

 

[Blrac]

I am searching for streaming surround stuff to make DTS discs for my Cadillac so I can listen to the stuff, as well as at home. Why did this thread stop a few months ago?

 

[humprof]

I am searching for streaming surround stuff to make DTS discs for my Cadillac so I can listen to the stuff, as well as at home. Why did this thread stop a few months ago?

Largely because the labels stopped adding any more back-catalogue 5.1 and/or 4.0 titles to Apple Music. It's not clear whether "Dolby Audio" (as a label for non-Atmos multi-channel content) is still something that Apple, Dolby, and/or the labels are committed to.

 

[Blrac]

Largely because the labels stopped adding any more back-catalogue 5.1 and/or 4.0 titles to Apple Music. It's not clear whether "Dolby Audio" (as a label for non-Atmos multi-channel content) is still something that Apple, Dolby, and/or the labels are committed to.

Thank you for your reply. I will move over to the Atmos streaming post now.

 

[Sal1950]

Largely because the labels stopped adding any more back-catalogue 5.1 and/or 4.0 titles to Apple Music. It's not clear whether "Dolby Audio" (as a label for non-Atmos multi-channel content) is still something that Apple, Dolby, and/or the labels are committed to.

That would be unfortunate.

 

[ted_b]

Thank you for your reply. I will move over to the Atmos streaming post now.

There's a Dolby Audio list over at Ben Dodson's spatialaudiodb.com under the "recently updated"; if you look it's about 8-9 months worth, so it's a decent list (whereas the Atmos list is the same length but represents only the past week!).