Amazon just killed Tidal


Today Amazon released Amazon Music Unlimited HD streaming for $12.99 per month for  Amazon Prime members.

There is a free trial.

Streaming is in CD and High Rez quality!

50 million songs!

Just started my subscription. More info later.
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Exactly this above!

And unless they change their format to resemble Qobuz to be album based and not copying iTunes and being song and playlist based it will never get my attention.

Maybe I am the odd one out but I have NEVER created a playlist in my life as I prefer to listen to a full album even if it does contain a few clunkers.

I guess that habit follows on from analog background where you play a side of vinyl all the way through and not leaping up and down to cue up and skip a track ( at least I dont!).
@uberwaltz, I agree that Amazon Streaming needs to change their format to be album based and not song based. 

I always listen to albums and not individual songs.  

I’ve used Spotify for 2 years, Tidal for 6 (?), and Qobuz for 1 month now.  I prefer Qobuz HiRes over MQA.  I just downloaded Amazon HD so we’ll see.  What i do like though is that all my Rodrigo y Gabriela albums are there and many are in HD.  Same with Metallica.  Tidal and Qobuz have no older Metallica...

Anyhow, my dragonfly dac is stuck thinking all these Amazon tracks are Hi-Res when they aren’t.  Is there a Wasapi Exclusive Mode, like on Qobuz?


So, everything I’ve compared between Qobuz vs Amazon, Qobuz is destroying Amazon.

Rush 2112 on Amazon sounds like an MP3 in comparison.  

Again, my dac is showing 96khz on everything in Amazon, even when its 44.1khz... am I missing a settings option on the Amazon desktop app?