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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Becky Roberts

Spotify snubbing spatial audio could be the smartest decision it ever makes

Music Unlimited subscribers can now stream music in spatial audio.

Type ‘Does Spotify’ into Google, and one of the top autocomplete suggestions is ‘have Dolby Atmos’. I imagine the frequency of that question being poked into the search engine has been steadily rising since May 2021, when Apple announced that it would add Dolby Atmos ‘spatial audio’ songs to its Apple Music catalogue the following month.

These songs essentially use Dolby Atmos technology as their foundation in a bid to create a more immersive, out-of-your-head listening experience than you get with traditional stereo music.

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