Apple Music Dolby Atmos style [STYLE-2348]

I don’t think “most people” consider this if “there’s no consensus”.

I know I laid out concerns in reply to Spatial audio: new release, new recordings? - #16 by Cheezmo - currently, Apple Music releases would be shared across all other digital platforms with shared identifiers on the basis of stereo audio (assuming that the Apple Music API doesn’t report a unique barcode). By allowing/requiring a separate release to be created that has a stereo medium and a spatial medium, then it causes crazy duplication of releases because other digital platforms only do stereo, not spatial (Spotify/Amazon/etc.)

Most people don’t seem to care about this problem. For example, I’m not seeing an issue when editing Japanese music currently.

Some labels already assign unique barcodes to hi-res releases vs. 16bit/44.1kHz releases, so they might already be reporting a different barcode via Apple Music than they would on Spotify - I don’t know.

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