Amazon has introduced that, starting right this moment, Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers will have the ability to take heed to spatial audio music tracks with their favourite headphones with the Amazon Music app for Android and iOS. The firm is supporting two codecs of spatial audio: Dolby Atmos (which can also be supplied by Apple Music) and Sony’s 360 Reality Audio.

The Atmos mixes are offered by document labels, so the “immersive, multidimensional audio experience” must be largely related between Amazon and Apple’s providers — except head monitoring, which Amazon doesn’t help. Apple’s new third-gen AirPods, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max all have the choice for dynamic head monitoring, which supplies a singular sound expertise as you progress your head in numerous instructions.

Amazon has supplied spatial audio since 2019, nevertheless it was restricted to a brief listing of units together with the Echo Studio and Sony’s SRS-RA5000. Now it’ll work with no matter pair of headphones you’ve acquired. You’ll see an Atmos or 360 badge within the Amazon Music app when taking part in spatial audio tracks. Like Apple, Tidal, and others which have gone in on the expertise, Amazon claims spatial audio delivers a “multidimensional audio experience, adding space, clarity, and depth that is not achievable with traditional stereo music.”

But as I discovered when sampling Apple Music’s preliminary batch of spatial audio tracks, high quality can fluctuate wildly and producers / artists have to put some work into Atmos mixes for them to sound their finest.

Also beginning right this moment, Amazon Music subscribers will get entry to lossless HD and hi-res Ultra HD audio tracks with out having to improve their account to take action. Amazon dropped the additional premium it had been charging for lossless on the identical day that Apple started streaming the high-quality information, however you continue to technically had so as to add the characteristic to your account. Now it’ll simply be a daily a part of the service for all Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers. Amazon says it has over 75 million songs out there within the CD-quality HD tier and “millions” in Ultra HD.

Amazon Music Unlimited is priced at $9.99 monthly (or $7.99 for Prime subscribers). The cheaper single device plan doesn’t enable for HD, Ultra HD, or spatial audio playback.