Amazon to offer CD+ Quality Music Streaming

I watch out for Amazon, I'm not happy with them. When I had Prime I was supposed to have access to music, then when they got the separate pay music service most of the titles on prime began to give me a message, this title can only be played on Amazon Music. In addition, when you buy a CD from Amazon you can have a download of the mp3 version for free, I began to notice many of those titles and tracks started not having access with the same message.

When you begin with a deal, they should keep it and if terms change,there should be notification. Amazon is slime in my book. Can I say that?

In addition, I dropped Prime because you were to get free video, but most of the free content was nothing I'd watch. They wanted to charge for old stuff I can watch for free on YouTube.
 
Hmmmm... I love Amazon Prime, but admit that I don't really stream music but have bought several CDs/SACDs and I get them very quickly!

There are a few decent series that we have watched and enjoyed. Still prefer cable for TV viewing.
 
Competition is always great , so if they actually can provide something better or equal at a lover price will of course be great. Was reading another article on Amazon music streaming and it sounds a bit mehhh...
 
I would not be surprised if Amazon does 24/96. I read somewhere that Apple requires that music companies provide higher than CD Quality tracks which they downsample for their music service.
 
Even though I'm an Amazon Prime member, it would take a lot for me to switch from Tidal HiFi. I tried Qobuz for a month and although the sound quality was great, the selection just wasn't there.
 
Al M. said:
Yes, and they will not have lossy MQA, hooray!
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I wouldn't subscribe if they did. However, folks should be allowed to enjoy their Master Quality Aliasing if they wish. Nothing wrong with that if it makes them happier. Only object to all the specious BS and any attempt to permanently embed that unauthentic sometimes audible distortion into original masters, for those who can do without it. Post mastered, sure, unauthentic master alias, EQ, distort all you want. Whatever pleases you.
If Amazon goes 16/44 or 24/96 FLAC...and have a decent GUI/Search, I'm in.

cheers,

AJ
 
AJ Soundfield said:
I wouldn't subscribe if they did. However, folks should be allowed to enjoy their Master Quality Aliasing if they wish. Nothing wrong with that if it makes them happier. Only object to all the specious BS and any attempt to permanently embed that unauthentic sometimes audible distortion into original masters, for those who can do without it. Post mastered, sure, unauthentic master alias, EQ, distort all you want. Whatever pleases you.
If Amazon goes 16/44 or 24/96 FLAC...and have a decent GUI/Search, I'm in.

cheers,

AJ
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"Master Quality Aliasing", love that one ;)
 
I have Alexa (more like she has me surrounded) and I just stream Spotify from her into my system. I don't care about the quality of streaming because it is streaming and I do not sit and listen to streams. For background or research its fantastically useful though, I just don't need great SQ for that.
I also do not trust Amazon in this regard. Besides the selection is limited. I am not and never will be a Prime member, just not needed for me.
 
I have read several more articles on this. It looks like Amazon will likely offer 24/96 PCM; no MQA; at $15/mo.

A few articles I read mentioned that many folks who currently subscribe to the high res services (Tidal, Qobuz) also use services such as Roon. In the Roon forums there are already many petitions for Roon to add Amazon to the list of supported streaming services.

I don't need MQA so for me the Amazon/Roon combo would work. And to top it off, maybe Amazon will add a discount for Prime Members.
 
nicoff said:
I have read several more articles on this. It looks like Amazon will likely offer 24/96 PCM; no MQA; at $15/mo.

A few articles I read mentioned that many folks who currently subscribe to the high res services (Tidal, Qobuz) also use services such as Roon. In the Roon forums there are already many petitions for Roon to add Amazon to the list of supported streaming services.

I don't need MQA so for me the Amazon/Roon combo would work. And to top it off, maybe Amazon will add a discount for Prime Members.
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If they offer a discount, that might entice me. Otherwise, 24/96 alone won’t get me to bite, unless they have a significantly larger catalog than the competitors in hi-Rez.
 
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