Sonos confirms Dolby Atmos music support coming "later this year"

(Pocket-lint) - Owners of the Sonos Arc and/or caller Sonos Beam (Gen 2) volition beryllium capable to watercourse Dolby Atmos euphony earlier the extremity of 2021.

Sonos has confirmed it volition adhd enactment for Dolby Atmos euphony streaming, positive Ultra HD tracks via Amazon Music "later this year". The level volition besides summation enactment for decoding DTS Digital Surround Sound - thing much-requested by the AV community.

There's nary connection yet connected whether the marque volition besides adhd enactment for Apple's Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos anytime soon.

Still, this is simply a captious archetypal measurement successful bringing Dolby Atmos audio-only recordings to compatible Sonos speakers. It was talked astir during the motorboat of the Arc backmost successful May 2020, truthful a invited diagnostic for sure.

Currently, speech from prime Spatial Audio tracks connected Apple Music, Amazon Music is the lone work to afloat clasp Dolby Atmos. It is disposable arsenic portion of an Amazon Music HD subscription, which is present disposable for nary other outgo to each Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers.

Amazon Music Unlimited is £7.99 / $7.99 per period (or £79 / $79 per year). First clip subscribers tin proceedings the work for escaped for 3 months (as portion of a constricted clip offer).

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Dolby Atmos euphony done Amazon Music is presently lone listenable done the Echo Studio speaker.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 14 September 2021.