Spatial audio makes sense in a lot of devices and places, from headphones to surround-sound home entertainment systems.
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AIM CEO Silvia Montello: Apple Music Atmos royalty change hurts Indies
February 2024: Silvia Montello, CEO of AIM. She talks frankly about the impact of Apple Music’s royalty-incentivised push for Dolby Atmos adoption and the impact on independent artists and labels.
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Campaigns :: 99th Nervous Flakedown – Mick Jagger turns 80 with ice cream van tribute
It did not stop off at Dartford railway station, the LSE, Edith Grove, Cheyne Walk or similar places of burning significance to the mythology of The Rolling Stones, but an […]
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NetEase Cloud Music expands its catalogue of Dolby Atmos tracks
NetEase Cloud Music has announced an expansion of its Dolby Atmos offering, bringing more spatial audio to its listeners.
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‘Two thirds of top 100 Billboard artists’ use Dolby Atmos
Dolby has been steadily signing up streaming services to use Dolby Atmos spatial audio technology, including Apple Music and Amazon Music.
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QQ Music is first Chinese streaming service to add Dolby Atmos
The surround-sound Dolby Atmos format has been making strides in the west thanks to its use by Apple Music and Amazon Music, among other streaming services.
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Immersion Networks promises ‘catalogue-level scale’ Dolby Atmos
What about smaller artists and labels who want to respond to the demand for spatial audio from streaming services like Apple Music and Amazon Music?
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Amazon adds HD music as default and expands spatial audio
As of yesterday, its spatial audio, HD and Ultra HD tracks will be available as the default for Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers.
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Apple and Amazon ignite hi-res music streaming battle
The code leaks this weekend may have spoiled the surprise, but Apple Music is bringing higher quality music to its streaming service. But rather than charge extra for an ‘HD’ or ‘HiFi’ tier as rivals have done, Apple Music’s lossless audio feature will be available to all of its subscribers from June – for no added cost.
Reaction from one of those rivals, Amazon Music, was instant. The company announced that from now on, its Amazon Music HD tier will be available to its standard Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers, also at no extra cost. Current HD subscribers will pay the price of a regular subscription too.
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Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band gets immersive with Dolby
Bad news if you want to hear the all-new remixed version of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in the flesh: tickets to the “immersive experience” in the band’s native Liverpool are already sold out.
The good news, however, is that the remix – in the Dolby Atmos format – is also being made available to stream globally. For now, it’s only on one service, Amazon Music HD, which is one of the first to support Dolby Atmos. However, Universal Music’s press release announcing this promised that there will be “further services to follow in 2020”.
