I quickly became obsessed with finding out which of my favorite albums were mixed in Dolby Atmos for immersive spatial listening, and had a blast listening to everything from chill indie to explosive hard rock from a new perspective. Not only did Spatial Audio track my head movements - keeping each instrument in a fixed place as if I were at a live concert - it also highlighted vocal harmonies and small background instrumentation I never noticed when listening on Spotify. I was calmly bobbing my head to Turnstile’s “Glow On” - an album I’ve listened to dozens of times - when the soaring anthemic chorus of the blistering punk song “Endless” suddenly hit me like a truck. Music stores remain the industry leader, though, and some music lovers don’t see themselves switching from them anytime soon.Your CNN account Log in to your CNN accountĪ few weeks back when testing out the AirPods Max, I decided to fire up Apple Music to see how the company’s immersive 360-degree Spatial Audio tech held up on the high-end headphones.
Its awesome to just be exposed to all of it.” “I’m on Facebook a lot, and I’m constantly clicking on links to the songs that my contacts are listening to. “I can’t recall a time in my life that I listened to so many new songs on a daily basis the way I do now,” Sinchak said.
If I’m listening to Ra, my friends know and can check that out. “If someone on my friends list listens to the Scissor Sisters, I can see that, and chances are that I’ll check it out. “The fact that everything everyone listens to gets posted to Facebook is an awesome way to discover new music,” Sinchak said. Rob Sinchak of Ambridge enjoys the social networking aspects of Spotify. She liked the Hayes song, “so I bought his CD,” the sophomore from Oakdale said. For instance, while listening to her Rascal Flatts station recently, she checked out a Pandora-suggested song by a comparable emerging artist, Hunter Hayes. Streaming doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive from buying, said Smith.
Pandora subscribers can create up to 100 unique “stations.” Smith, a subscriber to Pandora’s free service, has eight stations, ranging from Michael Buble to Lady Antebellum. Type “Black Keys,” for instance, and along with that Grammy-nominated garage band, Pandora might suggest songs by the duo’s Dan Auerbach, or a band deemed to sound similar, such as the White Stripes. The service swiftly scans a vast world of music - new, old, popular and obscure - to suggest related songs the user might want to hear. Pandora users type in the name of a favorite song, artist or genre. “For me it’s just a way to randomize my music without listening to commercials on the radio,” she said. Brooke Smith, a Robert Morris University student, makes daily use of the Pandora app on her iPhone.
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