By Wesley Hilliard, AppleInsider | Apple Music hopes to increase its Spatial Audio music offering by paying artists up to 10% more royalties as long as they’ve published songs in the format. Dolby Atmos music, which Apple has dubbed Spatial Audio music, launched in 2021 on Apple Music. The feature has proven popular for the service, but Apple wants more artists taking part in the format.
In what was likely an email to Apple Music artists seen by 9to5Mac, Apple is encouraging artists to make their music available in Spatial Audio. As long as an artist has tracks available in Spatial Audio, the artist is eligible for royalties up to 10% higher from Apple.
The payout doesn’t rely on what Apple Music users listen to on the service. Instead, it is determined by the proportion of Spatial Audio songs to non-Spatial Audio songs.
For example, for artists to get the full 10% incentive, they’ll have to offer all of their music in Spatial Audio.
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Writer Wesley Hilliard served ten years as a Nuclear Power Electrician in the US Navy, then jumped careers in 2019. Today, he is Assistant Editor, Podcast Cohost, SEO Specialist, and Social Media Manager for AppleInsider.
Comments:
JimH2: The last thing anyone needs is for music to altered from the way the creator intended it to be. It is like editing a movie to fit within a time block or reformatting a 16:9 to fit a 4:3 display. Not what the created intended.
Lolliver: I see it as more the opposite of those examples. Editing a 16:9 movie to fit into 4:3 is taking away from the original film. Same with editing a movie to shorten it and fit within a time block.
Mastering a song for Spatial Audio is more like digitally restoring or remastering an old film that may have degraded over time or remastering the audio for surround sound. Sure, it won’t be exactly the same as the original, but the changes are more to do with additional benefits of modern technology that weren’t available at the time of recording.
It’s not always done well though (in music or film) so I can definitely see why you would be concerned. There are times when a song in spatial audio makes the song worse, similar to how many people view the digital changes George Lucas made to the original Star Wars films as making them worse.
The difference with spatial audio on Apple Music though is you can still listen to the originals if you prefer. For the most part I prefer the Spatial Audio masters but there are a few songs where I feel (for my own personal tastes) that the original is better.
[Thanks to Jamie Krutz for submitting this article. https://www.jamiekrutz.com]
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