All Apple Music subscribers can access the new high-quality formats with Dolby Atmos-compatible spatial audio, which creates immersive multi-dimensional sound, as of Monday, and they will also be able to access more than 75 million songs with lossless audio. when the entire transition is complete. These new features are at no additional cost to subscribers.
At this time of release, there are thousands of tracks in spatial audio from numerous artists and from all genres. Apple has explained that it is working with artists and labels to add new releases as interpreters create music for Dolby Atmos spatial audio. This technology allows sounds to be positioned so that the listener perceives them in an enveloping way.
Dolby Atmos spatial sound settings in settings
Music will also offer the more than 75 million songs in its catalog in lossless audio using the ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) format that maintains the details of the original audio file.
Lossless sound setup
Both options must be configured in the settings. To activate Dolby Atmos, in Settings> Music> Dolby Atmos you can activate the automatic format, which will reproduce spatial sound as long as there are compatible output sources, such as AirPods, AirPods Pro, AirPods Max, Beats and other devices, or always .
If the song chosen to listen to in the new quality formats is downloaded to the iPhone, it must be deleted first to listen to it with the highest quality
To activate lossless audio you have to configure it in Settings> Music> Audio Quality. Here you can choose different resolutions. Keep in mind that higher quality implies greater use of data. Lossless audio scaling in Apple Music starts at CD quality (16-bit at 44.1 kHz) and goes up to 24-bit at 48 kHz. It can be played natively on all Apple devices. The highest quality option is the lossless high resolution, which goes up to 24 bits at 192 kHz.
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