Hello all.
I've been working on a pretty cool side project of mine called Spatial Audio Preview. Yes, I know, generic name, but I couldn't think of what else to call it.
What it does
If you have listened to spatial audio content a lot, you most likely know that depending on the app you listen to it in, the spatial audio sounds different.
For example, in a music app like Apple Music, spatial audio content sounds one way.
In video apps like Apple TV, it sounds more like a movie theater, with objects sounding more like they are coming from speakers in a room rather than localizable objects.
Have you ever wished you could take any file (stereo or multi-channel/Dolby Atmos) and compare the differences directly between the two of them?
That's where Spatial Audio Preview comes into play.
- Preview mono, stereo, and multi-channel content in the Music and Movie playback modes.
- Preview video, either in full screen or in a minimized view while listening.
- See the channel count, sample rate, and bit depth of a file.
- Load in any audio or video file, from your severely compressed mono MP3 to your multi-channel 32-bit 192 kHz lossless uncompressed WAV files.
If you have any suggestions or changes/features I should add, please let me know.
Supported devices
- You need a device with at least iOS/iPadOS 16.0, or visionOS 1.0 if you are one of the few with a Vision Pro.
- Note: I personally do not have a Vision Pro, or the budget to afford one, so if you do have one, I don't know how this app runs on visionOS.
- you will need spatial audio compatible airpods or beats headphones:
- AirPods 3 and later
- AirPods Pro (all models)
- AirPods Max (all models)
- Beats Fit Pro
- Beats Studio Pro
- Beats Solo 4
Download
Currently, you can try the app on TestFlight here.
Let me know what you think.