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…

It doesn’t seem to work for me with the profile, still transcoding to AAC to iOS app. Do I have to add more lines in case I’m using .mkv files instead of mp4?

The container doesn’t matter. Have to enable old player in settings on the iOS app

This works for AC3 movies using old player, but for some reason doesn’t work for AAC 5.1. Is there any way AAC 5.1 could be made to work with this profile xml?

I am experiencing the same issue “Couldn’t create the playback session for this item” after adding the iOS.xml into the profiles folder. Did you find a solution? thank you SOLVED: I was creating the XML using Rich Text format instead of Plain text with Textedit. Changed it to plain and it works per…

May be same for what gross said. But this profile didn’t work for me or I didn’t do it right. My Profiles is created under: /Users//Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Profiles/iOS.xml

For Unraid users here, you can add @Saiks script by putting you iOS.xml file in here: /mnt/user/appdata/*your_container*/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Profiles/iOS.xml It works for me at least :smile:

I wrote a small blog post explaining all the steps neceserry to activate it on your server. Hope it will help somebody out! https://dwffls.com/posts/plex-spatial-audio/

Awesome, it works! The latest version of Big Sur just added spatial audio support on Mac. Any chance you could also make a profile that works Does the same For Macs?

How is this not enabled by default… Cheers! Worked like a charm.

Support for Apple Spatial Audio

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I have a feeling our AirPods will be in the trash can long before Plex implements it in their new player, or even looks at this thread.

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Support for Apple Spatial Audio

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