With Apple supporting Spatial Audio with iOS 14 and AirPods Pro, I would hope that Plex would also support this feature for its iOS apps. Control Spatial Audio and head tracking Turn on or off the immersive Spatial Audio surround sound experience available on AirPods 3, AirPods Pro, an…

Thank you so much for this! It worked! And as a bonus, when it goes to PIP there is no pause in the transition.

Please could we have the option to sync content to the device with AC3 rather than AAC so Spatial Audio might work with offline media.

Running Plex on a Synology NAS. Had to get in to the shell via terminal to add the iOS.xml file. Got it in there and restarted, but after that I got ‘Couldn’t create the playback session for this item’ on any iOS device. Made sure the file was correct and that the syntax was correct. I didn’t have t…

Fantastic! this worked for me, of course not for all content but at least working for some content.

I just try this solution and for me spacial audio is only working when switching in pip mode…

You have to switch to the old player in Plex preferences.

@AgentMax Thanks! This worked great for me, although there was already an iOS.xml profile – it seemed to be containing older info though. On my OpenMediaVault server, the file was located in /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Profiles After I replaced the contents with yours and restarted the serv…

Is there any way to set up the profile to always force transcoding of audio formats Spatial Audio won’t accept to the formats it will for 5.1, 7.1, and Atmos content? I’m more concerned with compatibility than audio fidelity. I can’t hear the difference between DTS/TrueHD and their DD counterparts i…

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When you say ‘create a file’ do you mean just something like a text edit file and rename the extension to xml?

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