Apple quietly announced that its AirPlay streaming protocol is about to get a big new upgrade.
Though it was never mentioned during the Worldwide Developers Conference 2024 keynote, Apple will add a very cool new feature to its AirPlay streaming technology in the fall: support for spatial audio .
Recommended Videos The news could be a big deal for anyone who wants to hear spatial audio content, like Dolby Atmos Music, from a compatible wireless speaker. Though it may seem counterintuitive, even though AirPlay currently lets you stream any audio from an iPhone, iPad, or Mac to an AirPlay-enabled speaker, there are still limitations. For instance, AirPlay only supports up to CD-quality, 16-bit/44.1kHz lossless audio — it doesn’t work with any hi-res audio sample rates or bit depths.
This can create a challenge for builders of spatial audio speakers. Unless they build a companion app, and add support for direct streaming from every music service that provides Dolby Atmos content, there’s almost no reliable way to get the speaker to play Dolby Atmos as it should sound.
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