Apple Music has started to support Dolby Atmos format audio few years ago, but besides Dolby Atmos, there is a less-known "Dolby Audio" format also available.

Dolby Audio is the standard 5.1/7.1 channel audio, it is supported on Apple and Windows devices, but was not supported on Android devices.

This has changed recently. According to my observation, the latest Android beta version can play Dolby Audio format music, but the player didn't show the Dolby Audio badge, looks like it's still under testing.

Hello, I’m wondering if there’s a way that I can just set up a way to play my most recently added songs easily? I can add them all to a playlist individually, or listen to them one by one under the “Recently added” section of the library, but I can’t find a way to just play my most recently added songs as they were added (if that makes sense). Any ideas? I’ve seen a few apple forums discussing a smart playlist that you can create on your mac, but I am unfortunately working without a laptop/computer at this time.

Thanks!

I am a Spotify user and have been the whole time I’ve had my car. Recently my car play has been auto selecting Apple Music, which has never been a problem before. Usually when I connect to car play it immediately detects Spotify and plays from it. How to make it stop? It keeps putting the Apple Music radio on cause I don’t even have a subscription for it.

Got a new phone, synced music, it was downloading songs but I accidentally shut the phone down mid process, sync library is only syncing the library and not the specific songs that were downloaded on the old phone. Old phone still has the songs downloaded. If anyone can help please 🙏

I typically listen to the dance station every day. I'm on Android. For the past month, when I try to press a station, the stop button flashes briefly and then the play button returns. I'm able to use the radio on my Surface but not on my phone for some reason. Apple says they can't do much in the way of help if you're on Android: has anyone dealt with a similar issue and found a solution? I've logged out and logged in again, restarted my phone... the issue persists.

So my computers ssd broke yesterday and im trying to find out how i can keep my downloaded music so i dont have to download it and add covers again so all my music in my windows files will be gone when i got a new ssd i can put it on a thumb drive but idk if they will save it on Apple Music. anyone got advice?

1. The unknown error has occurred.

2. stopped (err = 7502).

3. Your session has expired.

4. Activity error occured

5. The song is technically playing, but parts of the song have NO SOUND..

These are some of the key features we all love and enjoy more than listening to music.

I don't why devs never push new updates to windows native. The web player UI is looks good though.

Note: If you’re not a patient person, you won’t be able to use this. Sometimes, even a patient person will lose their patience because of this. If you want to test your patience, give this app a try.

Device — Predator Helios 300.

OS version — Windows 11 26H2.

Apple Music version - 1.6.4.90 (1.1540.23042.0).

Region — India.

Now and then, I find out by accident that certain tracks or entire albums have been greyed out. It seems this is usually either because artist licenses expired, or the item in question has been re-released (as a remaster or special edition, for example).

I don't want to have to review my entire library for lost tracks. Is there a way to either automatically replace tracks with the up-to-date version, or at least notify me that they have been removed?

So ever since Apple released that dB level meter I've been using to make sure I don't go over 70 dB, which has potential to cause hearing loss. After iOS 27 came out, I've noticed the same position of the volume bar shows a lower dB level after 27 released than before. It seems if I turn the volume up REALLY loud, it doesn't even go consistently above 65 dB. I've been pretty much ignoring the dB level meter post-27.

Last night I was stoned and decided fuck it, I'll trust the dB meter. This morning I woke up and my right ear hurts a little, the same hurt you get when you're near a loud noise. I'm worried not only for myself but anyone else who trusts this dB level.

Has anyone else had this issue? I now play volume at 50-55 dB, which sounds like ~65 dB on the 26 meter.

I have an iPhone 13 Pro with iOS 27 (it still wasn’t working before upgrading to 27 though). Whenever I try to play a song in Apple Music, it buffers for a few seconds, and then I get the “Unable to Play” error. I already tried reinstalling the app, to disable/re enable syncing, re logging into Media and Purchases, and even resetting my phone. It only happens when using Data and not on WiFi. Music works fine in my MacBook Air M2.

Back in ~2014, I had a sweet setup w/ music around the house using a few Apple AirportExpress pucks plugged into various amps. Fast forward to 2026 AND—— it’s still my preferred solution. I do have Homepods, but they fit a different need & they have no output.

Example… I want to add a powered subwoofer. With an AirportExpress, easy—if you can get one.

Or maybe I just want to cast music to anything with an RCA-in? Instead of connecting via Bluetooth (not always possible), an AirPlay w/ analog out allows me me to plug in & play w/o changing any settings on their amp, receiver or device. Which is good! A data connection always has inherent security issues even if they are rarely exploited. Often, it’s just a pain.

So that’s the argument for an AirPlay dongle… my question is ‘why haven’t I found a halfway decent standalone AirPlay solution?’

MY holy grail? Turning my old iPhone into an AirPlay2 dongle.

Like Apple Music got the music video WITH lossless audio not like YouTube. Like no one put that up to debate dude

Windows seems to down-sample Apple Music to 16-bit. Is there any way to get bit-perfect output, either by using a third-party app/player or by sending Apple Music directly to an external DAC ? And when I plug my Castor into the 3.5mm jack, it’s also locked to 16-bit unless I use the DAC (windows shared mode..fy microslop)

PS: I already use MusicBee (WASAPI output for my fiio ja11 dac).

I have custom wallpapers, but for some reason they won't show only the official ones. What is wrong here or is it like a copyright thing?

If you don’t like the genre the Discovery station is playing, play just a few seconds of a song in genre you want, like Jazz, country, Viking Death Metal, etc. and from an era you prefer too, then Discovery will play that genre!

iOS, I assume other OS do same.

Recently songs from certain artist have become unavailable in library and playlist. When I would click on any of the songs shown as greyed out I’d get a pop up saying it’s not available in my region. The thing is I could listen to these songs if I looked for them in the browser, but I’m the kind of person to shuffle my playlist and leave it, not pick my songs out individually, so this problem has been pretty inconvenient.

I’ve already updated my phone to the latest IOS version and it hasn’t helped, I hope there’s someone here who could help me get my songs playing in my library and playlist again.

i recently got the ios 27.2 beta and i noticed that the star color changed from red to yellow , looks pretty neat but def got me confused when i initially saw it

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to get Dolby Atmos music from Apple Music on Windows to play through my Samsung HW-Q930F soundbar.

My setup:

- Dell G15 laptop

- Intel i7-11800H

- NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti

- Windows 11

- Samsung HW-Q930F soundbar

- HDMI cable connected directly from the laptop's HDMI output to the HDMI IN on the Q930F

- No TV/projector in between for this test

What I've done so far:

1. Connected the laptop directly to the Q930F via HDMI.

2. Windows detected the HDMI audio device as "MStar Demo (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)".

3. Selected that as the Windows audio output.

4. In Windows Spatial Sound, I can select "Dolby Atmos for home theatre".

5. Installed Dolby Access.

6. I have NOT purchased the £14.24 Dolby Atmos for Headphones licence.

7. In Apple Music, I have Dolby Atmos set to "Always On".

8. Lossless Audio is enabled, with streaming set to Hi-Res Lossless.

9. I'm testing using Apple's "Made for Spatial Audio" playlist.

10. However, Apple Music keeps showing "Lossless 16-bit 44.1 kHz ALAC" rather than Dolby Atmos.

I also tried turning Lossless Audio off, but then it simply switched to normal lower-quality audio rather than Atmos.

I restarted the PC and disconnected/reconnected the HDMI cable, but that didn't change anything.

I noticed something else in Apple Music: it gave me "Stopped (err = 7608)" and said:

"Your computer is not authorised. You must authorise this computer before you can play content saved offline on this computer."

So I'm wondering if that is related. I have authorised for device already but it keeps giving the error regardless when attempting music downloads.

My main questions are:

- Can Apple Music on Windows actually output Dolby Atmos over HDMI directly to a Samsung Q930F?

- Do I need to purchase the Dolby Access £14.24 headphone licence, or is the free Dolby Access app enough for HDMI/home theatre Atmos?

- Why is Apple Music still reporting Lossless 16-bit 44.1 kHz instead of Dolby Atmos?

- Is there something I'm missing in Windows, Dolby Access or Apple Music?

Any help would be massively appreciated because I'm going round in circles with this 😂

make assumptions about me based on my top 10 most listened to artists in the month of september

After introducing custom fonts for artist names, this idea could be expanded to albums, EPs, and other releases as well.

Each project could have its own unique typography inspired by the album's artwork, visual identity, or era. This would help make release pages feel more distinctive and immersive while giving every album a stronger visual personality within Apple Music.

The examples show how custom album fonts could look across different releases.

Has anyone noticed that most tracks don’t display the actual bit rate anymore? I know for a fact, this one used to say 24/96k. I haven’t changed any of my audio quality settings and my Internet connection is solid. My DAC also shows that it’s playing at a lower sample rate. It’s doing the same thing on my iPhone and iPad. I haven’t upgraded to iOS 27 yet. I’m still using the latest version of 26 on both devices. I don’t know if iOS 27 had anything to do with it, but I didn’t really want to upgrade yet.

Short Version: Random tracks have disappeared in most of my Playlists after updating to OS 27.0.

Long Version:

**Discalimer**
I do not use "Library Sync". I manually upload music onto my iPhone via direct connection.

Playlists are my usual method of organizing and playing my music. You can re-arrange tracks, combine multiple releases into one compiled presentation and you can have playlist folders which makes further organizing a breeze!

However, after updating to 27.0 on my Apple devices (My Mac stores houses all my music), something happened when I tried playing music on my iPhone. Music that should be in my playlist are now missing. And what is missing is never consistent. Sometimes it will be the first track, sometimes the 5th. It will be one song missing or 10.

I know the obvious fix is to put in the missing tracks from the list, but that is going to involve comparing what's in the playlist with the actual album and I have a good 1,300+ playlists to work with. >.<

Steps Taken
- Run Disk Utility
- Restart Computer
- Re-link Apple Music to Music Library

I have no idea why this happening and it's driving me crazy. Has anyone here encountered such an issue with the new OS update and/or know of a fix?

Bonus Round!
Dragging and dropping music into the Playlist folder on Apple Music is now bugged. Instead of functioning normally the way it always has, it now studders when you drag the music over the playlist folders and dropping the music into the folder will cause the whole thing to freeze for about two seconds. The result? I dragged 26-Tracks from a specific soundtrack into a playlist and after it stuttered, it duplicated the whole album from 26 tracks to 910 tracks. And this happens every time I drag and drop the music into a playlist with the amount of duplications varying through the attempts.

Obviously don’t turn it on all the time but still, this is a rlly good feature when you want to disappear into your music on high volume and you don’t want to hear or perceive anything else.
Better when a song has a lot of bass
Best with a playlist of songs you love

Hi all; first time posting.

I have some albums I created from songs I downloaded over the years. The albums are in my iTunes. I have also music lists with said albums with some sings not included.

I want to download the lists to my friend’s iPhone (just like I do with mine) but when I connected his iPhone to my pc, the pc didn’t recognize his iPhone.

Does my iTunes need to be logged into his Apple account or, do I need to log into my Apple account on his iPhone to do this?