we already used Amazon Unlimited for listening to books+ and the bought CDs from Amazon get immediately updated in the cloud what was important to us before the “unlimited upgrade” and us ripping FLAC files.
Audible for podcasts
I use Tidal Masters mqa (bought my if xDSD for it)
My wife prefers my :)Spotify Premium and it has the best ui + car connect and the app on the smart TV + the remote feature(miss this the most on Tidal)
The moment Spotify features mqa I could cancel most other services.
Can’t tell if there’s a way to lock in the bit and sample rate, but I kept this window open during a song and it changed often from “Standard” to 24/48 and everything between.
It’s because different files have different bitrates, and it seems for this one that the device won’t work properly with 192. So your phone maxes out at 24 bit 48khz so it most likely bounces between 44.1 and 48 with different tracks
Do you have a portable dac/amp you can try?
Edit: also 24 bit 192 khz is alot of bandwith to stream lol
Well then you should be able to play the higher quality audio then. The lg phones have an excellent dac. You might have to do a bit of messing around
Also do you have the hifi dac turned on in your settings of the lg? In the dropdown menu where the brightness setting is there should be an option called hi-fi quad dac
I’ve never had access to anything higher than 24/48. Since the tracks vary in quality, is there a way to configure my settings in windows 10 so that the track determines my DAC bit and sample rate? Setting it to 24/192 (seemingly the max on Amazon music) creates an odd stuttering effect when playing lower quality tracks.
A lot of the “Ultra HD” tracks are 24/44.1. 16/44.1 is “HD”. Doesn’t the sample rate usually add more to the quality of a recording than bit rate? I’d expect 24/48 to be the minimum for Ultra HD, but what do I know?
I fckn love it especially with that price! I’m using hd6xx paired with ifi nano black label sounds outstanding! The android app is pretty responsive with awesome lyrics features idk what some people complaining about
VS
TIDAL-they don’t a have lot of songs that I want especially kpop and OPM(original pilipino music) genre but Amazon does in HD quality mind you
QUBUZ-the catalog is made for audiophiles not for general consumers its like the music catalog is made for old people imo and the most buggy music app I’d ever used
SPOTIFY - they sound awful tbh
ITUNES - sounds really good for a compressed service but made for ifans…the android music app is trash
GOOGLE PLAY MUSIC-sounds really good the best deal(if you are youtube premium member) before amazon music HD
Something I’m missing in the possible switch from Spotify are the auto-generated playlists and the ability to start build a full playlist based on one song. Found a lot of new music that way. Submitted feedback though the app, we’ll see if anything ever happens.
I think the most important thing about Amazon moving in more heavily into this space is to force others to react. In a nutshell competition breeds improvement, personally, I use Spotify for mobile listening (and sometimes at home when i feel lazy) mainly because of the interface and the algorithm for new music (it ain’t perfect but it ain’t half bad)
This is great finally just have to pay for one thing. Also prime Music (Not Unlimited) Selection is pretty good now. Making it even more of an enticing move from spotify or tidal.
This is awesome! I love Tidal but if this has all the music i want i will definitely take the savings! I will continue to use Spotify for more general stuff like sharing and new music and such because their UI and algorithms are far superior even though the sound is fairly trash.
I had qobuz for several months and was just going through a trial for tidal, but I just cancelled that.