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RESOLVED Spatial Audio/Dolby Atmos Available in Updated Carplay

thecodingart said:
I love subjective commentary in the morning 😏
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There have been plenty of objective analyses of the exceptional qualify and clarity of Tidal’s high res and Atmos with the Air’s system. Sure the Tidal interface is clunky , but it’s usable.

Lucid should incorporate Apple Music , it would be great, but its current absence doesn’t justify a meltdown.
 
stratus said:
There have been plenty of objective analyses of the exceptional qualify and clarity of Tidal’s high res and Atmos with the Air’s system. Sure the Tidal interface is clunky , but it’s usable.

Lucid should incorporate Apple Music , it would be great, but its current absence doesn’t justify a meltdown.
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I'll say, if Apple Music was native on the car, I'd probably never use CarPlay at all
 
stratus said:
There have been plenty of objective analyses of the exceptional qualify and clarity of Tidal’s high res and Atmos with the Air’s system. Sure the Tidal interface is clunky , but it’s usable.

Lucid should incorporate Apple Music , it would be great, but its current absence doesn’t justify a meltdown.
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I don’t believe that’s what I was saying.

Ignoring that Tidal hasn’t been the “only” option in town for Spacial audio for at least 2 years, and ignoring it pains me to support a company that is driven by an utterly despicable person whom I refuse to support at all, the thing is that the commentary is all speculative without concrete analytics or corporate insights.

We shouldn’t assert Lucid’s priorities and can eco what we’d like it to be. It’s subjective.

IMO what’s there has never been good enough and audio quality as a whole has been a controversial weak spot for Lucid (hence their recent hire). IMO this is a priority point for them in a pool of priorities.

These announcements are great and I hope Lucid ups their CarPlay feature set game to benefit from these things. They recently did with turn by turn mirroring (yay).
 
marqie said:
This is not currently supported in the Air. I don't have additional information to share at this time, unfortunately.
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Any update on spatial? or Dolby Atmos other than Tidal? I use Apple.
 
Reviving an old thread. I signed up for Apple Music and Atmos tracks sound amazing in my Rivian. I wish Lucid would either support Atmos over CarPlay or develop a Native Apple Music app. Having Tidal be the only option isn’t acceptable.
 
Tim-in-CA said:
Reviving an old thread. I signed up for Apple Music and Atmos tracks sound amazing in my Rivian. I wish Lucid would either support Atmos over CarPlay or develop a Native Apple Music app. Having Tidal be the only option isn’t acceptable.
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Is this off your phone? If so IIRC that's not true Atmos, you need a native app on the dashboard. CarPlay and others do not allow full Atmos.
 
ultimatist said:
Is this off your phone? If so IIRC that's not true Atmos, you need a native app on the dashboard. CarPlay and others do not allow full Atmos.
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CarPlay in general can do Atmos - that's what this thread was about. Lucid just hasn't enabled it (yet).
 
segbrk said:
CarPlay in general can do Atmos - that's what this thread was about. Lucid just hasn't enabled it (yet).
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Exactly --- hopefully Lucid will implement sooooon! Apple Music Atmos sounds amazing in my R1S
 
The day after I installed 2.11, all of my SSP speakers started working with my Apple Music tracks on CarPlay. The vast majority of those tracks are .m4a. Before the update I was just getting stereo sound, I had iOS 26 on my iPhone 17e at the time. There were so few Atmos tracks on Tidal for the music I like that I canceled my subscription.
 
7OaksTom said:
The day after I installed 2.11, all of my SSP speakers started working with my Apple Music tracks on CarPlay. The vast majority of those tracks are .m4a. Before the update I was just getting stereo sound, I had iOS 26 on my iPhone 17e at the time. There were so few Atmos tracks on Tidal for the music I like that I canceled my subscription.
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It seems to be now (or at least more aggressively than before) doing some sort of upmix to the stereo - it's definitely not enabling Atmos over CarPlay, though. Tested this with some known working (at home via Apple TV > Atmos receiver) Atmos channel tests from Apple Music, and its defaulting back to the stereo "you'll need Atmos equipment to get the full impact" version on the car.

Some A/B comparisons from Apple Music Atmos tracks via the phone and Tidal Atmos versions on the car app confirm the difference.

I don't hate having upmix available, though I wish there were some controls for it to tune it better like on a traditional receiver (channel levels/ "spread" mostly).

But given Apple's insane library of Atmos tracks and Tidal's, uh, limitations, I hope the goal is still to get Apple Music working in Atmos on the car, if not via a native app then via turning it on for CarPlay, which is an option now.
 
JimmyBreeze said:
But given Apple's insane library of Atmos tracks and Tidal's, uh, limitations, I hope the goal is still to get Apple Music working in Atmos on the car, if not via a native app then via turning it on for CarPlay, which is an option now.
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I agree with this 100% and have submitted both to lucid several times. I tend to wonder if Lucid is still in some sort of contract with Tidal ….
 
Agree on the possible Tidal contract. If Lucid were to add an Apple Music App, you would probably see Tidal subscriptions on Lucid cars plummet.
 
Hmm they have a Spotify app. Would be strange to sign up with tidal and block out Apple Music.

CarPlay can now pass through atmos. I doubt it’s limited to Apple Music.
 
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