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Android is getting ready to support the new Eclipsa Audio format for 3D sounds At CES 2025, Samsung announced that its 2025 TVs and soundbars will be able to playback YouTube videos that support the new Eclipsa Audio format. Eclipsa Audio is based on the spatial audio format that Samsung, Google, Arm, and the Alliance for Open Media co-developed called Immersive Audio Model and Formats (IAMF). IAMF is being pushed as a royalty-free spatial audio format in contrast to Dolby Atmos. On the Android side, the latest Media3 1.5.0 release includes the media3-decoder-iamf module that allows for playback of IAMF audio tracks in MP4 files. However, developers will need to build the libiamf decoder locally. The Android media framework is also getting ready to support IAMF decoders. So far an empty build rule and boilerplate code for the decoder have been added. For context, check out this article from Engadget.