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Amazon HD streaming service ...

As you probably know, Amazon has a HD streaming service, which sends High Quality Audio files, as opposed to their standard service, which I understand is Mpeg3.    Has anyone tried it and if so, any comments? 

We are currently on Spotify Premium with AAC files, since my daughter set it up and had a couple thousand songs on various playlists she moved to our account.   The playlists are great but I would like to get better sound quality and, frankly, since I am a Prime member, it is also $3 less a month.   $3 less and better sound quality, what is not to like?

Also, does anyone have any idea how to transfer the playlists to a new service?   

Thanks,

Robert
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hilde45
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I'm using it. I use it on an ipad connecting to a Node 2i streamer. It has a very good selection of tracks and the price is much below others. Ultra HD tracks sound great and the HD tracks, too. Not sure if HD tracks are at Redbook quality or lower. Amazon says 856 bps in some places and I'd like clarification on that.

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sfar
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I switched from Spotify Premium to Amazon HD and find the audio quality clearly better in both my living room and office systems. The catalog suits my needs quite well. My impression is that the better your DAC the more difference you'll hear. My only complaint is that the user interface for Amazon has some serious flaws, nothing that will keep you from finding what you want but serious enough to be very annoying.
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fuzztone
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A service? I’m only familiar with Qobuz to which I moved from Spotify. They have a migration tool that automatically transfered the playlists. Easy peasy.
Only $20 more a year here. More streamers do Qobuz than Amazon.
BubbleUPnP on Qobuz is better than anything on BluOS.
mike_in_nc
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I tried Amazon HD but dropped it. It would not let me get best-quality output on my PC, nor would it send output to a network renderer (streamer). If you look around, you will find those complaints repeated by many. That makes Amazon HD a great solution for listening on a smartphone, but not flexible enough for me to integrate with my hi-fi.


I kept my Qobuz subscription.
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mattmiller
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"user interface for Amazon has some serious flaws" This is a killer for me! No thank you Amazon.PLUS...
If I were you I would NOT transfer/copy anything from one thing to anywhere, because you can get BANNED for life for doing stuff like that with UTUBE or GMAIL or GOOGLE or any major online business they will label you a SPAM BOTTER and freeze your account. They do not like things being copied and pasted from one place to another in my experience.
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