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Apple Offers Reward for Musicians to Use High-End Audio Format
That could mean higher royalty payments for artists who are first to embrace the technology made by Dolby Laboratories
Apple is offering incentives to artists and record labels to produce music using a spatial-audio technology that surrounds listeners in sound.
Starting next year, the company plans to give added weighting to streams of songs that are mixed in Dolby Atmos technology, according to people with knowledge of matter. That could mean higher royalty payments for artists who are first to embrace the technology made by Dolby Laboratories.
Listeners wouldn’t necessarily have to play the ...
