A device configured to process one or more audio streams, the device comprising: a modem; a memory; and one or more processors coupled to the memory and the modem, and wherein the one or more processors are configured to: send a password to the host device via the modem, wherein the password is a temporary password and wherein the temporary password remains valid for a fixed duration and expires after the fixed duration; receive, from the host device via the modem, audio streams with unrestricted access, and audio streams with restricted access from the one or more audio streams; wherein: the one or more audio streams are from audio elements represented in an acoustic environment that comprises one or more subsets of an acoustic space, and each of the one or more audio streams is representative of a respective soundfield; receive data indicating restricted playback of the audio streams with restricted access based on privacy restrictions associated with the password; render the audio streams with unrestricted access and the audio streams with restricted access for playback to recreate the respective soundfields, wherein: the rendering and/or playback of the respective soundfields of the audio streams with restricted access is restricted based on the data indicating the restricted playback. a modem; a memory; and one or more processors coupled to the memory and the modem, and wherein the one or more processors are configured to: send a password to the host device via the modem, wherein the password is a temporary password and wherein the temporary password remains valid for a fixed duration and expires after the fixed duration; receive, from the host device via the modem, audio streams with unrestricted access, and audio streams with restricted access from the one or more audio streams; wherein: the one or more audio streams are from audio elements represented in an acoustic environment that comprises one or more subsets of an acoustic space, and each of the one or more audio streams is representative of a respective soundfield; receive data indicating restricted playback of the audio streams with restricted access based on privacy restrictions associated with the password; render the audio streams with unrestricted access and the audio streams with restricted access for playback to recreate the respective soundfields, wherein: the rendering and/or playback of the respective soundfields of the audio streams with restricted access is restricted based on the data indicating the restricted playback. send a password to the host device via the modem, wherein the password is a temporary password and wherein the temporary password remains valid for a fixed duration and expires after the fixed duration; receive, from the host device via the modem, audio streams with unrestricted access, and audio streams with restricted access from the one or more audio streams; wherein: the one or more audio streams are from audio elements represented in an acoustic environment that comprises one or more subsets of an acoustic space, and each of the one or more audio streams is representative of a respective soundfield; the one or more audio streams are from audio elements represented in an acoustic environment that comprises one or more subsets of an acoustic space, and each of the one or more audio streams is representative of a respective soundfield; receive data indicating restricted playback of the audio streams with restricted access based on privacy restrictions associated with the password; render the audio streams with unrestricted access and the audio streams with restricted access for playback to recreate the respective soundfields, wherein: the rendering and/or playback of the respective soundfields of the audio streams with restricted access is restricted based on the data indicating the restricted playback.