Good way to stream Amazon Music HD to DAC

[Bamyasi]

If you deploy Bubble UPNP app (android), and run on both phones, yes I believe so. Roon will do similar. Will be others

Yes for pretty much every other service except the Amazon Music HD.

 

[Jimbob54]

Yes for pretty much every other service except the Amazon Music HD.

They really have ballsed this up, haven't they?

 

[Bamyasi]

One suggest may be to use the screen cast settings of android or some kind of VNC/screen sharing app to cast the screen of your phone attached to the DAC onto another phone, smart tv etc, and control it from there depending on your setup.

Note that you will have to root your device for this to work. My experience, it's not worth it. Most remote control / screen cast apps I've tried worked rather unreliably and looked as if they could be easily compromized to get unauthorized access to your home network.

 

[Bamyasi]

They really have ballsed this up, haven't they?

I believe jury is still out on what exactly Jeff was smoking when he decided to roll out the AMHD service. Who knows?

 

[stunta]

Thanks @Certainkindoffool @Glasvegas @BDWoody for the suggestion towards chromecast audio. The advantage of
Amazon Music HD -> iPhone -> Chromecast Audio via Chromecast -> Topping E30 via S/PDIF vs
Amazon Music HD -> iPhone -> Raspberry Pi via Airplay -> Topping E30 via USB
would be that Chromecast support higher bitrates right?

Amazon Music app on my iPad does not show my CCA. Android app on my phone shows CCA. So, not sure how your two options above would work.

 

[marco80]

So it seems like there's not really an easy and good solution right now even if I'd buy a Chromecast Audio or an Android phone. So I guess I'll stick to usually streaming from the iPhone via AirPlay to the Raspberry and then out via USB to the Topping E30. This way I should get lossless CD quality which is good enough, for now, most of the time.

When I know I'll do a longer session I'll plug in the Macbook via USB and be able to listen to some of their HiRes ones beyond CD quality.

I just hope they'll open up their API soon.

 

[Music1969]

They really have ballsed this up, haven't they?

They could have made life really difficult for Qobuz and Tidal.

But I don’t think those users are in any rush to Amazon Music HD anytime soon.

 

[zelig]

Bumping this thread to see if things have changed any.

I have an AVR, a headless PC, and a DAC. I'd like a system that plays Amazon HD Music that is controlled from my Android phone. I'm not seeing that as a possibility.

 

[stunta]

Bumping this thread to see if things have changed any.

I have an AVR, a headless PC, and a DAC. I'd like a system that plays Amazon HD Music that is controlled from my Android phone. I'm not seeing that as a possibility.

Possible if you add Chromecast Audio (or any Chromecast compatible device) to the chain. From Android, you can cast from within the Amazon music app.

 

[Alexanderc]

Edit: didn’t mean to quote that post.

If you want easy but not cheap, both HEOS and BluOS support Amazon HD. I’m going to be going the BluOS route with a NAD M33 or a Bluesound Vault 2i in the next few months, but I had previously seriously considered a Marantz ND8006 which does HEOS.

I’m sure there are cheaper alternatives if you want to put in more effort, but I guess I’m lazy

 

[Taddpole]

Possible if you add Chromecast Audio (or any Chromecast compatible device) to the chain. From Android, you can cast from within the Amazon music app.

You can cast to Chromecast audio but Amazon doesn't cast HD or ultra HD that way.

 

[Cahudson42]

I'd lke system that plays Amazon HD Music that is controlled from my Android phone. I'

Add an Echo Input (or Dot) to one of the line in of your AVR.

Within Amazon music playing on your android phone, click the cast button while music is playing. Assuming you have setup the Echo Input via Alexa, it will show as a castable device. Click it, and music will switch from phone to Input/AVR line in.

 

[stunta]

You can cast to Chromecast audio but Amazon doesn't cast HD or ultra HD that way.

Oh. I thought it did CD quality but not 24 bit. For me CD quality has been good enough in general - seems like mastering is more important.

 

[Taddpole]

Add an Echo Input (or Dot) to one of the line in of your AVR.

Within Amazon music playing on your android phone, click the cast button while music is playing. Assuming you have setup the Echo Input via Alexa, it will show as a castable device. Click it, and music will switch from phone to Input/AVR line in.

Echo input and dot don't do HD either

 

[Taddpole]

Oh. I thought it did CD quality but not 24 bit. For me CD quality has been good enough in general - seems like mastering is more important.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GNPY8ZGH6BMS7UJQ

They say standard, so I'd assume lossy

 

[Tatteredmidnight]

I can cast to my Klipsch PowerGate, but the setup was very convoluted. I had to set up Alexa on my phone, install an add-on for Alexa, and register my streaming endpoint with my amazon account. Compared to Spotify connect, it’s a much worse experience. The overall quality of the app also seems to be way behind, I do not think I will be extending my subscription beyond the free trial, which is a shame, because they seem to have a lot of content, and their Had/UHD is quite good quality.

 

[Taddpole]

I can cast to my Klipsch PowerGate, but the setup was very convoluted. I had to set up Alexa on my phone, install an add-on for Alexa, and register my streaming endpoint with my amazon account. Compared to Spotify connect, it’s a much worse experience. The overall quality of the app also seems to be way behind, I do not think I will be extending my subscription beyond the free trial, which is a shame, because they seem to have a lot of content, and their Had/UHD is quite good quality.

Seems almost as ill planned as their mobile phone

 

[Jmudrick]

I'm using the Paradigm PW-LINK to my RME DAC via the Amazon app on the phone. Limited to 24/48 but otherwise fine.

 

[Taddpole]

I'm using the Paradigm PW-LINK to my RME DAC via the Amazon app on the phone. Limited to 24/48 but otherwise fine.

That's better than most options.

 

[watchnerd]

I'm still waiting for Amazon to be added to Roon.