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Amazon Music HD Available on Sonos

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  • September 17, 2019
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  • Retired Sonos Staff
  • February 14, 2020

When set to uncompressed audio, the analog line-in on Sonos players (not the TV input on the home theater players) will convert incoming audio streams into 44.1/16 bit WAV. If you’re sending a higher bit rate into that input, it’ll go through the DAC (as all incoming signals are converted to digital so they can be sent across the network) and converted before played. 

 

As far as I know, Airplay streams in lossless ALAC 44.1/16 bit even if the source is a higher bitrate, Airplay will compress it to 44.1/16 bit before sending it over your network. 

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    • timbotwiddly
    • Lyricist III
    • March 8, 2020

    What the hell happened?   Now Amazon says Sonos is not supported for HD, and it is Sonos that is blocking this.  
    I know that “ultra” isn’t possible, but we can’t even stream CD quality now.
    Amazon’s “ultra hd” playlists used to appear but now are gone.

     

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    • NJRonbo
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    • March 8, 2020

    What the hell happened?   Now Amazon says Sonos is not supported for HD, and it is Sonos that is blocking this.  
    I know that “ultra” isn’t possible, but we can’t even stream CD quality now.
    Amazon’s “ultra hd” playlists used to appear but now are gone.

     

     

    I wonder if Quobuz is supported.

    Is it just Amazon HD that is not supported or any Hi-Rez service?

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    • wgdaquila
    • Contributor I
    • April 2, 2020

    What the hell happened?   Now Amazon says Sonos is not supported for HD, and it is Sonos that is blocking this.  
    I know that “ultra” isn’t possible, but we can’t even stream CD quality now.
    Amazon’s “ultra hd” playlists used to appear but now are gone.

     

    Do you have a source?

    Ken_Griffiths

    What the hell happened?   Now Amazon says Sonos is not supported for HD, and it is Sonos that is blocking this.  
    I know that “ultra” isn’t possible, but we can’t even stream CD quality now.
    Amazon’s “ultra hd” playlists used to appear but now are gone.

    That’s odd, as my Amazon Music HD service in the Sonos App is showing HD playlists here on my iPhone.🤔

    Ryan S
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    • Ryan S
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    • Retired Sonos Staff
    • April 2, 2020

    What the hell happened?   Now Amazon says Sonos is not supported for HD, and it is Sonos that is blocking this.  
    I know that “ultra” isn’t possible, but we can’t even stream CD quality now.
    Amazon’s “ultra hd” playlists used to appear but now are gone.

    That’s odd, as my Amazon Music HD service in the Sonos App is showing HD playlists here on my iPhone.🤔

    I can confirm as a Sonos representative that Amazon Music HD is still available on Sonos as a supported music service. I’m not sure what you heard from Amazon, perhaps there was a miscommunication with timbotwiddly and the person he spoke with.

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      • MIWI
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      • May 10, 2020

      Hi getjams, the team is working on bringing Amazon Unlimited HD streams to Sonos using voice control with Alexa, more to come soon and we’ll share here when it’s available.

      Will this be part of the new release in June?

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      • Dominic DA
      • Contributor I
      • June 8, 2020

      Is Amazon Music HD worth getting?

       

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      • Dominic DA
      • Contributor I
      • June 10, 2020

      Is Amazon Music HD worth getting?

       

      Just sighed up sounds great thank you Sonos And amazon for this

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        • eugeneclh
        • Contributor I
        • June 11, 2020

        Now that S2 is released and Sonos Arc, will Sonos support the UHD/3D formats from Amazon Music HD?

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        • Dominic DA
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        • June 11, 2020

        Now that S2 is released and Sonos Arc, will Sonos support the UHD/3D formats from Amazon Music HD?

        not at the moment it is still 16bit 44.1khz cd quality  this may change in the future sonos does not release a schedule of when features will be added. let sonos know your interested in getting hi res streaming on sonos S2 products.  currently sonos can from a computer or nas play up to 24bit  44.1 to 48khz in flac or alac. but not streaming yet. 

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