Spatial audio not available on MacBook Air m1?

To fix the issue, you just have to download the song

Then for some reason, it works.

Same here, and given that the advertising material specifically says 'Dolby Atmos for Apple Music' for these Airpods 3 that I just received, and spatial audio then doesn't actually work for apple music, this is very poor on apple part, what does what on what with regards to this is incredibly confusing.. i was absolutely convinced from reading around beforehand that the airpods3 wouldn't work for atmos spatial using apple tv, yet this works absolutely brilliantly (I honestly kept forgetting i even had headphones on!), and i expected it to almost only work with apple music, and this is one of the only things that DOESN'T work..... get your messaging straight guys

New M1 Max MBP and Airpods 3 owner with the same issue here. At first I thought it might have something to do with other apps trying to use the mic and speakers as I had some web pages open with the camera on testing facial recognition and machine learning performance, but i closed those out and it still sounds awful. Are you all experiencing a regression in stereo audio fidelity as well? My music sounds like I'm listening to ultra compressed mobile phone voicemails rather than high fidelity lossless atmos audio.

Quick correction; just checked the "Viral Hits" playlist and it plays well, but the "Made for spatial audio" playlist sounds awful. It still says "Spatial audio not available" for the airpods, but the stereo sound doesn't seem as bad as the spacial audio playlist.

I am having the same issue but mine is worst at least you guys have noise cancelling and transparency mode, me i have nothing and the airpods pro sound quality is ***** in comparison with macos bigsur, i am having few bugs.

i think i will try to go back to mac bigsur, who knows if there will be a new update to fix all the open bug in montery?

Well Ahmed-midou21, it won't get your spatial Audio back in macOS Monterey, as this whole topic is about lack of it in music.app while streaming. Altho did it fix your ability to switch modes: transparent, noise... etc?

Same exact problem with Mac M1 air and Mac M1 pro. When I go to safari it shows me this mode. In Italian it means "Simulate Spatial Audio". In reality the spatial audio is not perceived at all... This appears only in safari. Apple Music does not work. Nothing goes. How nice to pay 1500 for devices and have these shortcomings.... :D

Does anyone have any other solutions? I've read some that resetting the PRAM solved it. On mac m1 it automatically resets on reboot. In manual there is no way to do that. Do someone have Other solutions?

I am on latest OS. I have no interest in downloading music. I have AirPods Max and they work fine on iPad Pro with Apple Music and ATMOS. I don’t like the sound of spatial audio there either. Too low and echoey. All I was saying was that even though I can’t choose spatial audio on the MacBook Pro, as it is greyed out, it sounds exactly the same as spatial audio through my iPad Pro. Like crap. That makes me think it is activated on the MacBook even though it is greyed out.

So for some reason I am only able to get Spatial Audio via my Airpods Max when using the Apple TV App. I only get Spatialize Stereo when using Safari which is frustrating cause I primarily want to use my M1 MBA to watch movies in Spatial Audio.

Any tricks to have Safari switch over to Spatial Audio?

I am having this exact same issue 12/27. Still not fixed apparently. Tried all the fixes mentioned here and elsewhere online. Works great on iPhone. Similar to other comments here as well, the Apple TV app also works properly. My hunch is that there is a problem with Apple Music somewhere. But yes, I have the greyed out "not available" icon and I am playing the same content that works as spatial audio on my iPhone. I am following this for a fix soon. I like to use the Apple Music app on my mbp. Which I am using a 2021 16" M1 Pro Max with Apple Air pod pros. It should be working.

I just purchased the AirPods 3, but seeing how far back this issue goes, it will not be fixed any time soon, it seems. I'll simply return these things tomorrow; the sound is too mediocre to tolerate without Spatial Audio. Some people report it working on Youtube. Wth Apple!? Shouldn't it be the other way around??

I wonder whether Dolby Atmos is different to Spatial Audio.. the same way Dolby Digital is to HDR... i.e. you can't change any settings with Dolby Digital as it's auto configured for your TV picture. Maybe it's the same with Dolby Atmos.. it's a fixed setup according to the protocol and thus Spatial Audio isn't an option you can enable/disable manually. It's whatever Atmos says it is.

Whoa. That’s absolutely bananas. I’m going by the apple store tomorrow to see if i can trade these things in. Not only is the fit poor in the ears (hurts after an hour or so) but this lack of support is absurd. I was waiting for an OS patch for this as a bug, but now that I know it’s not going to be supported, I’m over it as a feature.

Interesting and thanks for the update (and yes, I did miss you having AirPods 3 not the AAP - sorry).

What's interesting is that when I listen on my M1 iMac (which is listed on a device to support Spatial Audio) I can definitely hear the difference when having Dolby Atmos in the Music preferences on Automatic and Off when listening to the built in speakers. And to my ears (which are granted almost 70 years old and listened to a LOT of high volume music over the years LOL) even with the AirPods Pro I hear a difference. Even though I do see the same grayed out indication that "Spatial Audio" is not available.

It works from the speakers in the MBP, but not from the headphones. Hope this helps clarify. I saw some folks posting that it worked for them who were playing it through their speakers. That’s not the issue, just to clarify. This is purely a headphone issue, and probably a disabled feature or glitch in Monterey.