SMART ACCESS TO PERSONALIZED AUDIO

A method for rendering a personalized audio program from an encoded bitstream (500) comprising extracting presentation data, wherein the presentation data is indicative of a presentation of the personalized audio program, wherein the presentation data was received from an interface that allowed for the presentation to be selected by a user, wherein the presentation is configured to identify one or more of substream entities (520) from the plurality of substream entities (520). The method further comprises rendering, based on the presentation data, object channel audio data and object related metadata corresponding to each of the one or more substream entities (520), wherein the object related metadata is indicative of a position within a presentation environment from which the corresponding object channel audio data is to be rendered; and wherein the object channel audio data is indicative of an audio content of one or more audio signals.