If the streaming services are done with this very bad habit of signing exclusives with artists and their record companies, the battle has moved to another area, that of listening technologies. Apple Music has as well announcement that the entire J. Cole catalog can now be listened to in Dolby Atmos, in other words in spatial audio.
To fully appreciate the eight albums of the hip-hop artist, it will therefore be necessary to connect to Apple Music. Ebro Darden, one of the voices of the radios of the service and one of the leaders of the platform, explains that J. Cole worked with the Apple teams to refine this ” new spatial listening experience », In tandem with sound engineers Juro Davis and Kaleb Rollins.
By default, Apple Music diffuse songs in Dolby Atmos on all AirPods and Beats headphones and headsets equipped with an H1 or W1 chip, as well as on speakers of recent versions of the iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Everything you need to know regarding lossless and spatial audio in Apple Music
David Bowie lovers will have to switch to Amazon Music, Deezer or Tidal to take advantage of five albums by the master recently mixed in 360 Reality Audio. Heathen, Reality, A Reality Tour (Live), The Next Day and ★ can be listened to in this Sony technology from February 21 on these platforms (Space Oddity had been remixed in this way in 2019).
Sony specifies that we will be able to listen to these albums in spatial audio with most headphones and headphones on the market. In iOS 15, it’s still possible to convert any audio file to spatial stereo from the Control Center (hold your finger on the volume gauge), but it’s an automatic conversion that sometimes gives weird results. Better obviously a mix remade to nine.
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