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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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Avid Contributor I
Jan 25, 2020 11:01 AM UTC

Thanks for being such an incredible help!

 

 

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ratty
Jan 25, 2020 11:11 AM UTC

Your question required several answers, which I found (again) in a quick scan of the thread. I don’t see why it should be necessary to repeat them.

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Avid Contributor I
Jan 25, 2020 11:13 AM UTC

Your question required several answers, which I found (again) in a quick scan of the thread. I don’t see why it should be necessary to repeat them.

 

Then please don’t and move on.  Your response doesn’t help at all.

Anyone that doesn’t mind answering is more than welcome to and I would be grateful for it.

Especially helpful to those of us just joining the conversation, have a short attention span and don’t want to have to wade through several pages for an answer that could simply be posted here in a few sentences.

 

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ratty
Jan 25, 2020 11:16 AM UTC

a short attention span

Your first post onto the thread was 2 hours ago...

 

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Lyricist II
Jan 28, 2020 12:37 AM UTC

How do you know if its HD. No display on the sonos app.

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Lyricist II
Jan 28, 2020 12:49 AM UTC

Until I see a trusted source doing true blind testing of various formats and reporting that HD is better I’m going with the science on this and calling HD audio snake-oil.

No reason not to spend your money on it if it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling but that is a lot of money to part with for a feeling.

My audio card runs at 48 bit 192khz. Through near field monitors. HD files of that quality are limited. Mostly classical recordings. You can tell its HD and the difference is like night and day. 

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Lyricist II
Jan 28, 2020 9:50 PM UTC

According to sonus support, amazon HD is not supported.? 

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Lyricist II
Jan 29, 2020 10:26 AM UTC

I've just returned the Sonos move to Amazon. Amazon and Sonos have confirmed that it does not stream Amazon HD music.

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jgatie
Jan 29, 2020 1:10 PM UTC

I've just returned the Sonos move to Amazon. Amazon and Sonos have confirmed that it does not stream Amazon HD music.

 

Which is 100% false.  It streams Amazon Music HD (aka CD quality) just fine.  It does not stream Amazon Music Ultra HD (aka snake oil nonsense).  

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Lyricist II
Jan 29, 2020 4:41 PM UTC

Well you had better tell Sonos and Amazon.

 

Here's the reply from Sonos and Amazon confirmed this. So dont know where you are getting your info from. 

 

Hi there, thanks for your feedback. At this time we support Amazon Music, but not Amazon HD. We can certainly take this as a feature request and ensure it is forwarded to the appropriate department. 

 

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