Hear and feel sound all around you on Apple Music

Lossless Audio is a feature that ensures the decoded audio is mathematically identical to the source audio. Lossless audio files are very large and require more bandwidth and storage space.

Dolby Atmos is an innovative audio technology that envelops you in an immersive listening experience. While music mixed in stereo is limited to left and right channels, music created in Dolby Atmos is freed from channels, allowing artists to place individual sound elements all around you. Artists can also decide the volume, size, and diffusion level of each instrument (vocal, guitar, or drums, etc.) to reveal nuanced details in the music.

Apple Music subscribers can listen to songs in Dolby Atmos on iPhone, iPad, or Mac using the latest version of iOS, iPadOS or MacOS with any set of headphones or using the built-in speakers. You can also listen in your home with Apple TV 4K using the latest version of tvOS connected to a Dolby Atmos capable home theater speaker system, sound bar, television, or HomePod speakers. For more details about device compatibility, please visit https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212182.

Dolby Atmos delivers the highest-quality audio your device can support, so your music always sounds its best whether over headphones or through speakers.

When you listen with compatible Apple or Beats headphones, Dolby Atmos music plays back automatically when available for a song. For other headphones, go to Settings > Music > Audio and set Dolby Atmos to ‘Always On’.

For artists, Dolby Atmos is a new way to create music that allows them to share their music with unprecedented fidelity while preserving creative intent. With millions of compatible devices in market, artists can deliver their music in the best possible way, whether to a pair of headphones or a multi-channel speaker system.

If your existing home theater system supports Dolby Atmos, you can connect it to Apple TV 4K and use the Apple Music app to experience Dolby Atmos Music.

When a device is not enabled with Dolby Atmos, Apple Music delivers the stereo version of the track, as it does today.