Roon Music Blog: Get Back to The Beatles with Roon!

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@MikeD

I wish Roon could go a step further and implement ATMOS.

Some thoughts on the challenges of that from another thread by the inimitable @ipeverywhere

Can I add Apple Spatial tracks to Roon?

Either way the answer will be no. Decoding of any Dolby format would require a license. Roon must unpack at Core before sending to endpoint. It means the Dolby decoding would occur at Core and Core has no way to do this. Roon won’t pass a Dolby format untouched either (although this would be the preferred way to do it, see below). One other tricky part about the ATMOS format is it holds both the individual audio channels plus audio description metadata. This is what allows an ATMOS processor to…