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Shame really, because as an iPhone experience and for people in the Apple ecosystem it really is a glorious service to use. And this takes your hi-res music and 3D spatial soundtracks right down to the MP3 quality that we started with. To use Apple Music with anything else you are looking at wirelessly doing it with Airplay or even worse Bluetooth. Where Amazon Music is available on basically anything, Apple Music is only available on their own speakers and devices, or through Sonos. But Apple are also quite frustrating in that they do not like to play ball with other manufacturers, so actually getting this high-res music into the speakers in your home has it’s hurdles. Apple also have Dolby Atmos and a Spatial Audio format (their own). Amazon have just jumped from try-hard late contender to best value HD streaming on the marketĪPPLE Music £9.99 (typical cost, can be bundled in with other Apple subscriptions)Īmazon are not the only provider offering hi-res music at no extra cost, as of June this year Apple announced their entire collection of 75 million tracks would be able to stream at CD quality with some up to Hi-Res 24 bit/192kHz. Amazon Music is available on pretty much every home audio platform on the market, from your Sonos and Bluesound, to your Control4 and Crestron. They also have a small selection of Dolby Atmos and Sony 360 spatial audio songs.
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The entire 75 Million track database is available in HD (CD quality), with over 7 million songs in Ultra HD.
AMAZON MUSIC HD VS TIDAL 320KBPS
What they call HD and Ultra HD quality (16 Bit and 24 Bit recordings) are CD and better than CD quality songs at no extra cost to the regular 320Kbps service. So why is everyone still using Spotify?ĪMAZON Music HD Unlimited £9.99 (£7.99 for existing Prime Members)īezos and his buddies are disrupting the audio streaming market by offering high resolution music for no extra charge over their regular streaming service. To be fair Spotify was mainly a headphones on your phone thing back then, but now we have speakers in every room of the house, and these are good speakers, and they can play very high resolution music. That’s 13 years of 165 million subscribers happily binning the superior quality of their CD collection for the sake of convenience. It’s amazing to think that ever since Spotify launched back in 2008 they have never streamed in better than MP3 quality sound.