I don't know much about the Beatles, let alone that entire era of music, but that was an incredibly interesting read as always. Would you say that the book you mentioned is great for further reading into this?
Oh absolutely, though it does require at least a passing familiarly with the Beatles music, but I ate that book like candy in about 2 days as Martin’s story really is the story of not just the Beatles but of the evolution of Rock & Roll itself. The groundwork laid by these geniuses and solutions and workarounds they came up with is the foundation to so much modern entertainment. Another totally amazing musical revelation to me was learning about Carl Stalling, the conductor/composer behind all of Looney Tunes. That was literally a 96 piece orchestra playing live with no ability to edit while following a conductor who was watching the projection of the cartoon, all recorded to damn MONO and you hear EVERYTHING thanks to clever engineers who knew exactly what microphone did what and where to place them.
In the latest Lucid owner survey I completed a couple weeks ago, I read Lucid the riot act over a number of high-priced options I paid for that up until now have been a complete waste of money. One of those is SSP. When I bought the car ($2,900 option), CarPlay hadn't been released but was on the roadmap. Fair enough. I assumed once we had CarPlay I not only could finally take advantage of my Apple Music subscription but also finally listen to Dolby Atmos in the Lucid. Once Lucid released CarPlay we of course discovered that although Apple had earlier allowed Atmos to stream through CarPlay, they then removed that feature without ever explaining why - whether it ever returns or not is a question I have asked Apple.
I don't believe Atmos has ever been available via CarPlay. At least not in the time frame that Lucid has existed.
While I seriously appreciate the links to SSP I don't know HOW to play these in my Lucid.If you'd like more classic rock variety, here's a huge list of 'Max' quality classic rock:
And one for modern, hard rock:
Hopefully the switch to FLAC won't mess my playlists up
If you heart/add the playlist itself, it adds the entire playlist to your collection. To play an individual song, you can either heart the individual song and find it under your collection, or search for it through the built-in app in the car. The latter does not work well, and it's often very difficult to find the Atmos version of a song. The Tidal app has a long way to go in user friendliness.
Yeah apparently Rivian just released an OTA which enables native Apple Music (not CarPlay) which seems to do Spatial Audio, not true discreet Atmos even though it says it’s playing Atmos in Apple Music. That’s cool Dolby recently enabled Atmos over CarPlay. I’d expect that to take time to enable in the Lucid but maybe not too much time (can Wireless CarPlay do Atmos? Unknown?). It’s nothing to be upset over given it’s a work in progress and is just evolving over the last few weeks. When the Air was built NO cars in the US Market could play back Atmos and the only viable option at that time for Atmos streaming and native audio application was Tidal, Lucid being the first car to have it.
Hi, @Neurino! I activated Tidal yesterday, in anticipation of getting the new front woofers TSC and SSP 'enhancements' next week. I recalled you offering to share your Atmos Classic Rock mix, and set it up this morning. Wow! Great mix! You saved me a ton of work searching through the Tidal app, as our tastes in music are very well aligned. Just wanted to say thanks!If you're wanting some Atmos Classic Rock, check out this playlist I made. I try to update it as new Atmos mixes come out. With Tidal now $12 per month rather than the $20 it was, it's an even better deal to maximize the SSP system:
