Last month the Apple announced that Music would feature Dolby Atmos, spatial audio and Hi-Fi sound No additional costs. These are technologies that allow the emulation of additional sound channels, music with a sense of immersion, and without loss of quality due to compression, respectively. Announced for sometime in June, the new features began arriving in the application, shortly after the opening of WWDC 2021.

It was still at the end of May that the first tags involving these new features gave signs of their implementation in Apple Music. Alongside iOS 15, the company officially released the first songs with spatial audio and Dolby Atmos — but Hi-Fi quality, high-fidelity music that even requires specific audio hardware, seems to have been left for another time.

Dolby Atmos basically tries to simulate a home theater system on headphones, as if several sound channels were available, but on the same hardware. Spatial audio takes advantage of this and tries to project 360º music. Together, these new features allow headphones to emulate a sound environment that creates the sensation of instruments and voices moving from the most diverse directions. What this gives the user is the impression that the music is not necessarily being directed towards the ears, but that it is almost present in the same space.

Dolby Atmos and spatial audio compatibility on Apple Music is confirmed for all of the company's headphones with the H1 or W1 chips. That is, all AirPods and Beats earbuds. At its event, Apple highlighted that “some” selected content already has the new technologies, such as albums by Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, J Balvin, The Weeknd and Kacey Musgraves. The new feature has even arrived in Brazil. The user only needs to be on iOS 14.6 or the beta of the recently announced iOS 15.

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