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Got a free three month subscription to Amazon Music and am very impressed with the sound quality and music selection. Everything is 16/44 quality or above, with quite a few tracks available in UltraHD (which seems to range from 24/96 to 24/192 and possibly DSD).There are also tracks available in Dolby Atmos, Dolby 360 and other codecs that sound as good or better than CD quality. The HD Ultra tracks sound fantastic, especially when you compare them back to back to standard CD quality (easy to do as there are usually several codec choices for each song selection).
The user interface is just OK. You can do a voice search after a few clicks to get you to "search" but if you forget that step the search will exit the app and usually end up as a YouTube search. There's no way to save your searches or find previously listened to songs, at least none that I've discovered.
All in all a very good sounding and reasonably deep selection of songs/albums at an unbeatable (free) price.
Edit: To clarify the service is Amazon Music Unlimited. I'm streaming through the app on an LG OLED.
Edits: 08/31/24 08/31/24Follow Ups:
I have Amazon Music Unlimited but have problems with sudden signal dropouts in the middle of a selection. Generally the music starts up again but not at the point the signal drops out. I use the LG oled tv as streaming connection.. Does anyone else have this problem? I have xfinity net service. Is this a problem, perhaps? Music played back on my I tablet or phone doesn't have this issue, but getting an air play connection with the tv is like pulling teeth.
Others may disagree, but I find the direct connection user interface on the tv to be maddening. The interface on the pads/phone is different and much more user friendly. Appreciate any ideas.
LowIQ
Spotify does an excellent job of creating playlists for me with what seems to be minimal input other than quessing what I would like from a small sample of my selections.
Does Amazon Unlimited do as well in your estimation?
Thanks
I find Amazon Music's suggestions adequate, but what is more useful is the ability to search for other Amazon Music users' playlists if using Amazon Music browser version (e.g. Music.amazon.com). These are playlists that others have compiled and allowed to be searched.
For example, if I search for "Audiophile," I can find a big list of other users' playlists that have words "audiophile" in the playlist name, and some have great selections I never would have known about.
I've never used Spotify, but I'm quite happy with the playlists/suggestions Amazon Music has made for me. There are suggested playlists, songs, albums, "stations", and podcasts.
Regards,
Steve
This post got me to loading Amazon on the TV. It sounds excellent. I'll let you cool guys debate the sampling frequencies... All I know is that Billie sounded excellent. Harry "Sweets" Edison in his own space on the right was crisp. Oops, the martinis are ready. Gotta go. Ella, Autumn in New York just came on.
I've used Amazon Music for a few years and like it a lot. As far as saving your searches and finding songs you listened to, you can create playlists, mark songs as favorites, and it shows music you recently listened to.
When I bring the app up on my tablet the top row shows playlists I've created, including My Likes. The second row says "Made for you", and includes "My Recent Plays" and "My Frequent Plays", both automatically created. The third row is titled "Recently Played", also done automatically.
Regards,
Steve
Since Amazon Music does NOT support automatic sample rate switching to match the source song, except for a very few setup exceptions, one needs to manually change the playback sample rate to match the source song sample rate (any song, even Ultra HD).
I thought that was mostly a problem when using Windows? When I was using my laptop to stream I looked at foobar2000. I ended up getting a streamer that works fine with Amazon Music.
Regards,
Steve
Pretty much one is left with Wiim stuff. Which one are you using?
Even Amazon's own streaming products don't do automatic sample rate switching even though the Amazon music interface says it is. For example, on Amazon Firestick 4K, although it will say "Playing at 96kHz," when you actually verify it by connecting to an outboard digital processor, EVERYTHING is playing at 48kHz..
I use a Bluesound Node, with the output going to a Schiit Bifrost 2/64 DAC. The DAC clicks when the bitrate changes. The DAC doesn't show the bitrate, but it clicks when the recording bitrate changes.
Regards,
Steve
Bluesound and Wiim are the two companies that offers automatic sample rate switching..
It is my understanding Wiim has closer business relationship with Amazon and has deeper access to Amazon music API, whereas one has to use Bluesound app to access Amazon music content. I wish Amazon would share their API with a wider range of developers, but we know that's not going to happen.
Edits: 09/08/24
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