I find myself in the same position. It may not yet support TrueHD/Meridian Lossless Packing (it shows as DD+ on my receiver, so still lossy) but I expect it will get there. What formats have you tried other than Atmos?
Atmos was introduced to Tidal in December 2019. We are fast approaching 5 years with Roon unable to process it. I think itās time Roon gave us some clarity as to why this hasnāt happened.
I get that they donāt generally talk about their development āroadmapā but this is just getting ridiculousā¦
As much as I would like to see support from Roon on this, I do not believe that Roon can introduce Atmos without a Authorized Container from Dolby. There is no documentation as to what Tidal and others are using for a container.
As for as I know, there are 2 ways to purchase Atmos. One is a Blu Ray disk and the other is a MKV, MKA file which I wonder if this is even legit for purchase.
Then there is the DAC Hardware support for Atmos. Just like Roon they are also not introducing anything either. What source container would they use for content?
It is going to be for Dolby to take the lead on this and they are the ones holding all of the cards but they are very silent on this. Until then nothing can happen.
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Just want to +1 on this one.
Even without Atmos bitstreaming, what about (E)AC3 and TrueHD decoding support to base 5.1 or 7.1? Even without Atmos, this will allow users with these kinds of codec types (as .M4A or .MKA containers for example) to play the music with ReplayGain, awaiting the day when bitstreaming passthrough of Atmos is available.
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