I'm quite disappointed in Samsung's handling of Dolby Atmos content with headtracking.
The implementation is needlessly flawed, leading to a terrible listening experience. Especially when compared to Apple's implementation.
The bugs:
- When listening to Dolby Atmos music and turning on 360 Audio in the Wearables app, it automatically switches the Dolby Atmos setting to 'film'.
The 'film' setting simply sound horrible with music. I want to use the 'music' setting of Dolby Atmos which does sound good. But Samsung won't let me since the Dolby Atmos settings under Settings - Sounds - Sound Effects are not accessible once I take my Buds 3 Pro out of their case as it is then automatically controlled by the Samsung Wearable app. So there's absolutely no way to switch Dolby Atmos to 'music' setting.
Please fix this. This is just such a horrible implementation I'm calling it a bug.
- When the screen goes to black 360 Audio / headtracking stops working.
How are we supposed to enjoy music in Dolby Atmos with headtracking when it stops working when the screen goes off?
And it seems like it also tries to detect when you're walking around and also tries to turn off 360 Audio if it detects this (luckily it's quite bad at detecting this).
Please stop auto-turning off 360 Audio. We WANT head tracking when moving around and when audio is playing, that's the whole point of head-tracking.
Samsung, PLEASE fix these things.
The way you're doing things now makes spatial audio / Dolby Atmos for headphones with headtracking / 360 audio totally unusable for music. You're making it sound worse instead of better.
It seems like you've only set it up as a gimmick for movies.
Fixing the above two bugs should be very easy and it would make Dolby Atmos with 360 Audio headtracking actually work great for music.
Simply don't turn off headtracking when the screen goes off, and don't auto select 'movie' mode under Dolby Atmos when 360 audio is active (let the user choose).
My setup for reference:
Apple Music app with Apple Music subscription (with spatial audio turned on under settings) - Galaxy S23 with One UI 6.1 - Galaxy Buds 3 Pro.
Thank you.
