Play Spatial Audio in Dolby Atmos in Music on Mac
If you subscribe to Apple Music, you can play available tracks in Dolby Atmos, which creates an immersive, three-dimensional (spatial) audio experience on stereo headphones or built-in speakers.
Albums and songs available in Dolby Atmos have the Dolby button next to them.
On a Mac with Apple silicon, you can use AirPods (3rd generation), AirPods Pro or AirPods Max to play music with Spatial Audio and head tracking (where sound stays fixed to the device as you move your head). See Use AirPods with your Mac.
Note: Apple Music and Dolby Atmos aren’t available in all countries or regions. See the Apple Support article Availability of Apple Media Services.
Choose Dolby Atmos (spatial) audio quality settings
Go to the Music app on your Mac.
Choose Music > Settings, then do any of the following:
Play supported songs in a Dolby Atmos audio format: Click Playback, then choose one of the options from the Dolby Atmos pop-up menu.
Choose Dolby Atmos audio quality when downloading songs: Click General, then select the Download Dolby Atmos tick box. See Add and download music.
Change the Dolby Atmos (spatial) audio quality for a song
Go to the Music app on your Mac.
Stream a song from Apple Music.
Note: A song needs to be playing before you can change its audio quality.
Click in the playback controls to turn Spatial Audio on or off.
If you want to play supported audio in Dolby Atmos and other Dolby Audio formats using HDMI Passthrough when connected to a supported device, see Change Playback settings.