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Ryan S
Ryan S
Retired Sonos Staff
Sep 17, 2019 6:31 PM UTC

Amazon Music HD Available on Sonos

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Amazon Music HD, Amazon’s new high-quality music tier for streaming in CD-quality is available today on Sonos in Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. You can now stream over 50 million tracks in CD-quality (16-bit HD) audio through the Sonos app.

 

Amazon Music HD is available as an add-on to Amazon Music Unlimited subscriptions for an additional $4.99 per month (on top of the noraml Amazon Music Unlimited subscription) or $50 per year. Check out the Amazon Music HD page here on Amazon for more details.

 

After subscribing, to use Amazon Music HD on Sonos, just update your Sonos app then add Amazon Music as a music service. That’s all it takes to be streaming Amazon Music’s catalog of CD-quality audio on Sonos.


Find out more about Amazon Music HD on Sonos here.

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    adam2434
    Avid Contributor I
    Sep 22, 2019 12:45 PM UTC
    The Amazon Music app casts to Sonos using Alexa, and Alexa can only stream to Sonos speakers in SD.

    Do you know if this limitation is specific to Sonos or inherent to Alexa Cast?
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    ratty
    ratty
    Sep 22, 2019 12:47 PM UTC

    The Amazon Music app casts to Sonos using Alexa, and Alexa can only stream to Sonos speakers in SD.
    Do you know if this limitation is specific to Sonos or inherent to Alexa Cast?
    See https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/amazon-music-hd-available-on-sonos-6830070?postid=16361736
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    toby23
    Lyricist I
    Sep 22, 2019 1:01 PM UTC
    I might be misunderstanding the point here but I can stream to my sonos beam via airplay from the Amazon app on my iPhone and that's definitely not SD quality.. It sounds the same as when I use the sonos app, which also streams in a higher bitrate than SD.
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    Kumar
    Sep 22, 2019 1:26 PM UTC
    Far more valuable, in my book, would be a music service that guarantees that all its streams will play at the same sound levels for a given level of volume control setting on my kit.

    For that offering, I would definitely pay a premium over the usual bag of streaming services suspects that are merely cosmetic variations of essentially the same theme.

    It is so irritating to have to reach for the volume control so often in a playlist. Even playlists from my NAS.
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    ratty
    ratty
    Sep 22, 2019 1:28 PM UTC
    I might be misunderstanding the point here but I can stream to my sonos beam via airplay from the Amazon app on my iPhone and that's definitely not SD quality.. It sounds the same as when I use the sonos app, which also streams in a higher bitrate than SD.
    Airplay is Apple only, and requires the phone to be in the loop. It's to be expected that the local Amazon app would send whatever it receives to Sonos, including in HD.

    The discussion here has been about Alexa-initiated streams and by casting from the Amazon app. These go direct to the player, and are currently in SD.
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    adam2434
    Avid Contributor I
    Sep 22, 2019 3:02 PM UTC


    The Amazon Music app casts to Sonos using Alexa, and Alexa can only stream to Sonos speakers in SD.
    Do you know if this limitation is specific to Sonos or inherent to Alexa Cast?    See https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/amazon-music-hd-available-on-sonos-6830070?postid=16361736

    Ahh, I see, HD casting will be available in the future.

    Just FYI...I have been playing with casting to my Marantz processor using Heos. According to quality indicator in the Amazon Music app, casting to the Marantz drops the quality level - HD becomes SD and UHD becomes HD. Not sure why this happens. However, there is no way to tell the actual file type, bitrate and sampling frequency with this casting.
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    ihobans
    Contributor III
    Sep 23, 2019 8:54 AM UTC
    How to check on my sonos connect the quality of stream.
    is there any info on my ipad app?
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    ratty
    ratty
    Sep 23, 2019 9:23 AM UTC
    How to check on my sonos connect the quality of stream.
    is there any info on my ipad app?
    Not for Amazon, no.
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    ihobans
    Contributor III
    Sep 23, 2019 11:25 AM UTC

    How to check on my sonos connect the quality of stream.
    is there any info on my ipad app?    Not for Amazon, no.
    And how can i see it with a different service like spotify, tidal,... ?
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    ratty
    ratty
    Sep 23, 2019 1:13 PM UTC


    How to check on my sonos connect the quality of stream.
    is there any info on my ipad app?    Not for Amazon, no.    And how can i see it with a different service like spotify, tidal,... ?
    I don't believe you can with those either. (This thread is about Amazon.) Deezer does however display the format.
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