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How do you know from app what songs are Amazon HD?

  • 6 February 2020
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chickentender

Hey @Ryan S or @Andy B or other…. I’ve had two posts spam-blocked. Could you please release them from the jail? Cheers.

 

Moderator Note: Posts flagged as Spam in error have been restored.

chickentender

Thanks, Ratty.   You saved me a lot of excess data usage.

I will set it to CD quality.

I have mine on (the phone app) set to 320kbps for streaming over mobile network, but I download in CD quality for offline (when I’m on wi-fi). Helps with bandwidth/data out and about when just streaming (avoids consumption as well as drop-outs) but can still listen to CD version in the car from off-line albums (without having to go into settings and switch to that “mode” as you do in some apps) just by selecting “Offline Library” from the main ribbon at the bottom of the app.

Airgetlam

I’m always fascinated by when this happens to me, trying to figure out what in my posts triggered the ‘filter’. In a few instances, I think it was links, but not always. InSided, the provider of this forum’s software claims it’s a ‘smart’ filter, but sometimes I have doubts.

Bruce
chickentender

I’m always fascinated by when this happens to me, trying to figure out what in my posts triggered the ‘filter’. In a few instances, I think it was links, but not always. InSided, the provider of this forum’s software claims it’s a ‘smart’ filter, but sometimes I have doubts.

I just had a third blocked 10 minutes ago. Quite short and no links. We’ll see if this one I’m typing in reply makes it out. Seems to have something to do with frequency and length of posts as well… but I dunno. I have doubts as well.

B

You’ll tend to find this with most lossless services. The bulk of the tracks are in the advertised format, but there are some which for historical reasons have been left in the catalog at a lower quality.

I don't believe Amazon is any better or worse than the others. However right now you’d have to inspect the track in the native Amazon Music app to view its format.

Deezer HiFi does display the format within the Sonos controller.

As  does Qobuz, I think: at least it adds '(FLAC)' after song names in the Sonos queue and Now Playing displays.  I assume this display tells me I am getting my 16/44 I've paid for...  There does remain the issue on my version of the Sonos controller (7.3) that when a whole album (or the remainder of the album is dumped in the queue when a track is tapped  - thanks Sonos), the FLAC info is not displayed.  Started to take this up with Qobuz but decided my controller version was too dated to be representative.  CR100 shows FLAC too; ho-hum.

 

chickentender

As much as I love Qobuz, it looks like I am going to have to cancel it.

 

First, I signed up for a free month and immediately received a solid $150+ charge on my credit card.  This is not a pending charge.

Second, I can’t log into Quboz via CarPlay even if I am logged into the app on my iPhone.

So, I wrote the company and told them if they are going to charge me right out of the gate and I can’t even log into Carplay, to cancel my account

 

Uh-oh. Hmmm… Not sure about the charge. I know I didn’t select annual when I first signed, but rather 30-day free trial which would have defaulted to monthly at $15 after the 30 days, but there was no initial charge. However after 3 or 4 days I was ready to sign up and had to switch my plan to annual for that discount price (and it warned me my trial would expire). Best I can think is the annual, if chosen at onset, might just have a 30-day money-back sort of arrangement and/or your subscription would wind up being for 13-months perhaps? I really don’t know.

Re: Carplay, have you gotten in touch with their support? Unfortunately that’s not a topic I’ll be of any help with (Android land over here). I wrote them about an issue with track metadata (definitely not a mission critical problem) and they were pretty responsive. https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/help/contact

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I did write customer support about the charge after starting the trial and after 24 hours I have yet to hear back. I am certain I eventually will and I can easily dispute the charge on my credit card.

I had the opportunity to listen to Qobuz in my car, which remarkably is my most critical and favorite place to listen to music.  Despite advice I was given here, I did set the streaming to one notch above CD quality.   I am really amazed at how clean the audio is in my vehicle.  I have decent audio in my Lincoln and it just sounds so much better than anything else before it.   I miss the days of cars having DVD-A access and this is just the replacement I needed.

I am still tracking the data usage but I have a 75GB per month plan with Verizon.

The problem with Carplay?  It works if you plug your iPhone into the head unit.  It’s just that the interface does not.  The interface will not connect.  I can skip music and go to the next track using my steering wheel control, but I can’t see what song/artist is playing unless I open my phone and look at the app.

I will try and get this straightened out with their tech team (thanks for the link).  I am just angry these guys charged me for an alleged first-month trial.

 

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