Just fire up the Amazon Music app for iOS or Android, plug in your headphones, and tee up a spatial audio song that’s been mastered in either Dolby Atmos or Sony’s 360 Reality Audio format. Just keep ...

What Is Dolby Atmos Music? Dolby Atmos – the leading immersive surround sound format – debuted in movie theaters back in 2012 with Disney/Pixar’s “Brave.” Atmos was the first object-based sound format ...

Earlier this year Apple announced that it would be rolling out Spatial Audio capabilities for music on its devices. Enabled by Dolby Atmos coding, Spatial Audio uses iOS to give songs additional depth ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. Apple Music supports spatial audio using the ...

To listen to Hi-Res audio on Windows, you’ll need compatible audio files (like FLAC or DSD), a Hi-Res-capable output device (preferably wired), updated audio drivers, and a player like AIMP or ...

When Apple brought lossless tracks to Apple Music at no extra cost, it was a huge deal. Not only did it turn what was already the world’s most popular music streaming service into the most popular ...

Artists and technology companies are more determined than ever to use 360-degree audio as a hook to draw you in. J. Cole has made Apple Music the exclusive home for spatial audio mixes (in this case, ...

Lossless audio is the first step toward audio nirvana. But what is it, does it really make a difference, and how can you get it? Here’s what to know. There’s a difference, of course, between “putting ...

Listening to lossless music on Windows 11/10 comes with some effort instead to streaming readily available lossy music on streaming platforms. You can listen to lossless music on Windows in the ...

We’ve been hearing a lot about lossless audio lately. Apple Music says it has it. So does Amazon Music. Tidal and Qobuz have it too, but Spotify doesn’t. (Yet. Or still.) Is lossless audio a big deal?

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