Mercedes-Benz strikes Dolby Atmos partnership with Apple Music and Common

Automotive big Mercedes-Benz has struck a multi-faced partnership with Common Music Group and Apple Music.

wAccording to the announcement issued on Sunday (October 16), Mercedes automobiles are set to turn out to be the primary non-Apple gadgets to supply Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos from Apple Music natively in a automobile.

The partnership comes over a 12 months after Apple Music began providing Lossless Audio and Spatial Audio with help for Dolby Atmos on its platform at no extra price.

As well as, Mercedes-Benz, Apple Music and Common Music Group have introduced a partnership, that the businesses say, ushers in “a brand new period of in-car leisure by establishing the in-car audio expertise because the benchmark for music manufacturing and playback high quality”.

In response to the announcement, the tie-up has been launched based mostly on the “understanding that many musicians and recording artists already base their approval of a brand new mixture of a monitor on the way it sounds when performed in a automotive”.

UMG says that it’s actively encouraging its artists and file labels to provide music blended in Dolby Atmos immersive audio.

Common will now allow its artists to base their music approval course of on how the ultimate combine sounds in a Mercedes-Benz and can introduce what it calls the seal, “Authorized in a Mercedes-Benz” as “a gold commonplace of sound”.

In response to the announcement, as a part of the settlement, Mercedes-Benz will present UMG with autos geared up with the Burmester high-end sound system “for artistic and technical assurances”.

The music firm additionally says that it plans to ascertain a brand new studio atmosphere in Sindelfingen, Germany, based mostly on its Capitol Studios’ Studio C, which it calls “a significant international reference music studio for Dolby Atmos mixing”.

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The brand new spatial Audio function is now built-in into the MBUX infotainment system of quite a lot of Mercedes-Benz automobiles together with the Mercedes-Maybach fashions, the EQS and EQS SUV, in addition to the EQE and the S-Class, in response to a press launch on Sunday (October 16).

Mercedes-Benz drivers who’re already subscribed to Apple Music will achieve quick entry to songs and albums accessible in Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos.

The partnership follows the combination of Dolby Atmos immersive audio within the non-compulsory Burmester high-end 4D and 3D sound system supplied in Mercedes-Benz automobiles.

Citing a Mercedes survey, the press launch notes that over 70% of music customers state they take heed to music principally in a automotive. 

One other survey carried out by Mercedes-Benz, in cooperation with Appinio in 2022, discovered that just about 72% of automotive drivers say that they’re unable to think about a automotive trip with out music, whereas for 2 out of three of the respondents, in-car sound high quality is “necessary” or “essential.”

“This necessary step within the historical past of recorded music is the end result of years of working along with our companions at Dolby to develop the Dolby Atmos Music format so we will present our artists with a good wider palette for his or her artistic expression.”

Sir Lucian Grainge, Common Music Group

Sir Lucian Grainge, Chairman and CEO of Common Music Group, mentioned: “This necessary step within the historical past of recorded music is the end result of years of working along with our companions at Dolby to develop the Dolby Atmos Music format so we will present our artists with a good wider palette for his or her artistic expression.

“With Mercedes, an organization that shares our ardour for high quality and innovation, followers can now take pleasure in our artists’ music in Mercedes automobiles in a method that nearly transports them to the recording studio or dwell stage.”

“Sound high quality is extremely necessary to Apple Music which is why we’re so excited to be working with Mercedes to make Spatial Audio on Apple Music accessible natively within the automotive for the primary time.”

Oliver Schusser, Apple

“Sound high quality is extremely necessary to Apple Music which is why we’re so excited to be working with Mercedes to make Spatial Audio on Apple Music accessible natively within the automotive for the primary time,” mentioned Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vp of Apple Music and Beats.

Added Schusser: “Spatial Audio is revolutionizing the best way artists create and followers take heed to music and it’s an expertise that’s unattainable to elucidate in phrases; you must hear it for your self to understand it.

“Along with Mercedes, we now have much more alternatives to convey wholly immersive music to our subscribers all around the world.”

“These efforts come collectively to present Mercedes prospects a one-of-a-kind immersive music expertise in Dolby Atmos, setting a brand new bar for a way music needs to be heard within the automotive.”

Kevin Yeaman, Dolby Laboratories

Kevin Yeaman, President and CEO of Dolby Laboratories, mentioned: “In 2021, we launched partnerships with each Mercedes-Benz and Apple Music to convey music in Dolby Atmos to extra individuals all over the world.

“At present, backed by a strong and rising catalog of music accessible in Dolby Atmos from our companions at Common Music Group, these efforts come collectively to present Mercedes prospects a one-of-a-kind immersive music expertise in Dolby Atmos, setting a brand new bar for a way music needs to be heard within the automotive.”Music Enterprise Worldwide