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I have an rpi4 with Hifiberry DAC+ ADC PRO. I subscribed to Amazon Music Unlimited only to find that there is no way to stream it on the pi. I don't want to give up the pi and I don't want to pay what it would take to get equipment that would allow me to stream HD content from Amazon. I see that there are other options out there but I don't know which one of them would work best with my equipment.
My equipment:
RPI4
Monoprice Monolith headphone amp (no DAC)
Hifiman HE6 headphones
The best definition I've ever heard for wisdom is that it's the insight that comes from genuine first hand experience. (Truman G. Madsen)
Follow Ups:
Finally decided to ditch Amazon and went with Qobuz. Using PiCorePlayer on the rpi4. Works great. Sounds great. A little more work to install and configure picoreplayer, but worth the effort.
The best definition I've ever heard for wisdom is that it's the insight that comes from genuine first hand experience. (Truman G. Madsen)
I failed to mention that I have a Hifiberry DAC+ADC PRO that I am using with the Pi. I have listened to music from amazon through this set up and thought it sounded pretty good, so I was anxious to hear HD audio to see how much better it sounded. One day, I was listening to amazon music using the headphone out of my laptop to feed the headphone amp. Now, amazon was showing that I was getting HD or Ultra HD sound but it still sounded somewhat dull, so I switched back to the pi. Opened the amazon music site on the pi and noted that the site does not indicate that HD sound is being received. However, the sound through the pi / hifiberry combo sounds significantly better than the HD sound through the laptop. For the moment, I'm just going to stick with that. I can't imagine I'm going to get enough additional enjoyment from HD that it would be worth the cost. Thank you to those who responded. Your input was helpful.
The best definition I've ever heard for wisdom is that it's the insight that comes from genuine first hand experience. (Truman G. Madsen)
make sure you have exclusive mode on. It makes a big difference on my laptop with Windows 10. If you pay for Amazon premium music you get HD for free. I already have Prime so it's pretty low cost for much better sound quality.
Regards,
Steve
Here's a copy of my post elsewhere:
Nope, Amazon music exclusive mode does NOT "change the output bitrate and bit-depth automatically to match the content." The only way to match the Amazon music file bitrate/sample rate to one's music playback chain is to manually change Windows (or Mac's) mixer setting EVERY time the Amazon songs' resolution changes.
I and many others have complained to Amazon support repeatedly, but as of now, Amazon has no plans to repair this huge flaw in the Amazon music app.
To rub salt to wound, Amazon arbitrarily labels their songs "Ultra HD" even if they are only 24bit/44.1kHz or 24bit/48kHz even though these resolutions are generally not considered "high resolution" in the community.
I have requested Amazon support to display the actual bitrate/sample rate on their songs instead of just "Ultra HD" to save the trouble of clicking/opening new window to find out if the song is actually in high resolution. I encourage others to make similar two requests to Amazon support so that Amazon may be motivated to do something.
I received a tip for streaming radio stations using the Echo
if you simply instruct 'Alexa' to 'open up' a radio station you'll generally gain access to their 96Khz streams which sound much better
otherwise it's just the FM stream
; )
Interesting... I don't use any digital assistants, but that's good to know.
I was playing around with TuneIn on my Node today and was impressed by the sound quality of the radio stations.
Regards,
Steve
I'm quite happy with Qobuz. I use the Qobuz plugin for Logitech Media Server (squeezebox server) and an RP4 to feed my DAC.
Note, though, that Tidal has reduced cost of "regular" 16/44 streaming to $10.
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voolston - audiophile by day, music lover by night
and prefer Qobuz for providing lossless high resolution content up to 192/24.
MQA is a joke.
It's about which software allows you to run those streaming services on RPi4.IMHO all streaming hardware is pretty much commodity with the 'audiophile approved' stuff costing much much more than necessary. But regardless of platform, it's the software that provides the magic.
I run Roon as my primary software and Roon Bridge on the RPI4 which allows me to stream Tidal, Qobuz along with my own CD rips and hi-res downloads.
Perhaps inmate Cut-Throat will chime in. You can often find him in the Computer Audio section of the Asylum.
Edits: 11/11/21
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