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by duped 869 days ago
> But what about object-based surround sound? I'm using that somewhat lengthy term to try to avoid singling out one commercial product, but, well, there's basically one commercial product: Dolby Atmos.

In theory, the recent(ish)ly standardized SMPTE 2098-2 bitstream protocol will allow for 3rd party encoders/decoders of object-based "immersive audio." In practice, 2098-2 is the bastard child of Atmos and DTS:X and I kind of doubt we'll ever see a FOSS decoder.

But anything's possible.