All music streaming platforms increasing their music quality every day. As a leading music streaming platform spotify must want to take a first moving advantages. Is 360 reality audio on spotify available for all free and premium users?
There are no official indications yet that Spotify will support Dolby Atmos or Sony 360 Reality Audio soon.
Key Takeaways:
- Spotify does not support 360 reality audio as of now,
- Only Sony Headphone provides 360 Reality Audio.
- It’s Sony‘s (object-based) 360 Spatial Sound technology.
- Some Spotify playlist claims, they offer 360 reality audio quality.
Spotify’s spatial audio feature allows certain songs/playlists to be heard in a 360-degree sound, making them feel more dynamic and multidimensional. To access or enjoy more efficiently, use the latest Sony headphones.Â
What is 360 reality Audio?
360-reality audio is Developed by Sony in partnership with major record labels. It’s designed to sound like the music is coming from lots of different directions like back, front, and both left and right sides. It’s like putting you in the middle of a 360-degree soundscape.
Listening to music using 360 Reality Audio will sound as if individual elements of the recording will originate from different points around, above, and below you.
Although this technology was developed by Sony, you can also experience it through other company’s headphones. Here Sony claims you can experience more efficiently if you listen through Sony’s 360 reality audio-supported headphones.
Which streaming platform supports 360-reality audio?
Worldwide dozens of leading audio streaming platforms are available but few of them can provide 360-reality audio as of now. Here we listed a popular music streaming platform with 360 audio and yet-to-support platforms.
Supported Platforms:
- Tidal
- Nugs.net
- Amazon Music HD
- Deezer
Yet to Support Platforms:
- Spotify
- Pandora,
- iheartradio,Â
- Qobuz,Â
- Amazon Music,Â
- Apple Music,
- Youtube,Â
The data we gathered when we were ready to publish this article, may changed when you read this article. Please comment below if you find any platform that recently supported Sonys 360 reality audio. If we find your information is correct, we will update this list as soon as possible.Â
How to get 360 audio on spotify?
Although spotify does not support Sony’s 360 reality audio, you can see a few playlists on spotify that claim, they sound like 360 reality audio on spotify.Â
Here is how you can access that playlist with 360 sound quality:
- Open your Spotify app and click on the search icon from the bottom of the screen,
- Now type “360 reality audio” on the search bar and spotify will suggest you many playlists,
- Tap one of them to listen to 360-reality audio,
This listed playlist provides sound quality like 360 reality audio, but this is the pre-generated software-based sound that you may experience. However, this is not a bad sound quality to listen to.
Does Spotify have 360 audio?
As per official updates, spotify does not support 360 audio. But Spotify supports the spatial audio feature that allows certain songs to be heard in 360-reality audio.
With the spotify premium account, you can access up to 320 kbps of sound quality, which is not a bad option for a normal listener. Spotify does not yet support 360 reality audio developed by Sony.Â
I recommend visiting the official Spotify website for any announcements or updates regarding this. Also, you can visit the spotify community platform to raise this topic, there are many officials or representatives available to give a proper answer. Â
Spotify Community about 360 reality audio
One of the spotify users PeterS1 questioned this 360 audio quality in the spotify community section, and officials from spotify Yordan replied to his question. Like this you can also, raise your question regarding spotify, if they find it’s a legitimate problem you facing, they will answer you.Â
There are many spotify users who joined them in that conversation and also shared the problems they facing. In the below section, you can see the image with the answer from Yordan.
We already gathered all the information about 360 reality audio availability on spotify and we haven’t found any positive stuff as of now. Other competitors of spotify already support this feature, that why spotify may allow this in the future. Bookmark this article in your browser, we’ll inform you when they launch or official update on it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Spotify does not have any option to pay for 360 reality audio. Spotify even only supports 320kbps for the premium users, which costs you $10.99/month.
Once spotify officially launches 360 reality audio features in its platform, you can access them. As of now, many creators claims they offer 360 audio quality in their playlist, which you can find through the search option and listen to.
No, both are different. 360 reality audio gives you a surrounding music listening experience, where you can experience individuals playing instruments. Whereas 320 provides CD-quality sound.
I’m sourav, a music lover and sound enthusiast. After experiencing multiple sound qualities, I thought many people searching regarding this topic, but there is not enough detailed information on it. That’s the main reason why I created this blog.
