Apple Music Brings Lossless Audio, Dolby Atmos, Spatial Audio to India

Apple Music is now providing Lossless Audio, Dolby Atmos, and Spatial Audio to customers of its music streaming service in India. The new options come at no extra price and can be found for all customers of Apple Music on iOS and iPadOS, MacOS, and Apple TV. The new options had been rolled out for Apple Music customers within the US and different world markets in June and eventually come to India the place customers pay Rs. 99 per 30 days for entry to the person subscription plan.

Furthermore, Apple has additionally clarified to Gadgets 360 that the brand new options for Apple Music in India shall be coming to the Android app quickly, however has not indicated a timeline for a similar as but. Users of Apple Music on Apple’s supported platforms together with iOS and MacOS ought to have already got entry to the options as soon as activated by the settings for the service. This might be accomplished by the Settings menu, by going into the precise settings for Apple Music and sliding the toggle for Lossless Audio to on. Additionally, you may also activate Dolby Atmos from these settings.

Apple has additionally rolled out quite a lot of curated playlists for Spatial Audio and Dolby Atmos to assist with the invention of tracks obtainable in these codecs, together with varied tracks from Indian artistes equivalent to AR Rahman and Badshah. An unlimited chunk of its catalogue can be already obtainable in Lossless Audio decision, with some tracks and albums obtainable in High-Resolution Lossless as nicely. On iOS, the decision is prominently displayed when tracks are enjoying, and tapping on the icon exhibits the precise decision of the observe.

Apple Music is out there in India beginning at Rs. 49 per 30 days for college kids, and is priced at Rs. 99 per 30 days and Rs. 149 per 30 days for normal particular person and household plans, respectively. You can even entry Apple Music when you’ve subscribed to Apple One, the corporate’s mixture subscription that additionally contains entry to Apple Arcade, Apple TV+, and iCloud storage.

How does Apple Music Lossless Audio work?

We’ve already described intimately how Lossless Audio, Dolby Atmos, and Spatial Audio work, and the most recent rollout for India is according to this. As talked about earlier than, Lossless Audio shall be obtainable to all customers at as much as the desired resolutions, however will want a wired audio setup to correctly make the most of the upper decision and element within the tracks. Other options equivalent to bit-perfect decision, and notably the supply of the best decision of 24-bit/ 192kHz audio tracks, will depend upon the gadgets and gear in use.

There are two tiers for Lossless Audio with most tracks falling inside the decrease ‘Lossless’ tier, and choose tracks and albums providing the ‘High-Res Lossless’ streaming in the next decision. Apple has stated that about 20 million tracks can be found in Lossless decision at launch, and the total catalogue of over 75 million tracks shall be obtainable in Lossless decision by the top of 2021.

How does Dolby Atmos and Spatial Audio on Apple Music work?

Unlike Lossless Audio, Dolby Atmos and Spatial Audio help on Apple Music will work on wi-fi headsets in addition to wired headsets. Dolby Atmos is supported on choose tracks and might be set to Always On by the settings to permit for the format for use on any headphones or earphones, be it wired or wi-fi. The format permits for a wider and extra open listening expertise, simulating encompass sound regardless of there solely being two channels in most headsets.

Spatial Audio is proscribed to pick out headphones and earphones for now, together with the Apple AirPods Pro and AirPods Max, and can work when these headsets are used to hearken to supported tracks.

Unlike with Apple TV+ content material, which permits head-tracking and actors the sound to the supply system, Apple Music doesn’t help head-tracking for now, and solely makes use of Spatial Audio’s binaural sound capabilities that work with Dolby Atmos to supply a simulated encompass sound listening expertise. Apple has confirmed to Gadgets 360 that head-tracking shall be coming to Apple Music later this 12 months.