With Amazon Music HD, customers also have access to a constantly growing catalog of 3D audio formats such as Dolby Atmos and Sony 360RA. Since launching in 2019, Amazon Music HD has added more than 5 million songs in Ultra HD, giving customers the largest selection of music in Ultra HD. In addition, customers have access to more than 7 million additional tracks in Ultra HD (better than “CD quality”) with a bit depth of 24 bits and a sample rate of up to 192 kHz, which contains even more nuances and which are heavily compressed earlier for digital streaming were. All music fans should have access to premium quality music and we made that possible! “Īmazon Music HD offers more than 70 million HD songs with no quality loss with a bit depth of 16 bits and a sample rate of 44.1 kHz (“CD quality”). “We are thrilled that we can now make Amazon Music HD available to everyone at no additional cost. “When we launched Amazon Music HD, our goal was to make a mark in the industry and enable music fans around the world to stream music in the best possible recording quality that the artist intended,” said Steve Boom, VP of Amazon Music. More information about Amazon Music HD is available here Now more and more fans can stream music with all of its depth, vibrancy and emotion from the original recording. In 2019, Neil Young called the launch of HD Audio for Amazon “the greatest event in music history since the introduction of digital audio”. Seattle, – Amazon Music today announced that Amazon Music HD is available immediately to all Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers at no additional cost, giving even more music fans access to premium sound quality streaming. In one day, Apple and Amazon have made paying extra for higher quality streams of the same content look a little quaint.
However, the biggest takeaway from today’s game of lossless streaming point and counterpoint is that the two of the largest streaming services on the planet have woken up to the realisation that everyone should be charged the same price for music streaming, irrespective of the stream’s bitrate. The upshot? In the USA, Amazon Music HD will be available at the same price as Apple Music – US$9.99/month – with Prime people getting their HD fix for US$7.99/month. This offer is currently rolling out to users in Germany, the USA, Great Britain, Canada, France, Italy and Spain. That means: 70 million songs in CD-quality (something Amazon calls ‘HD’) 7 million songs in hi-res (which Amazon calls ‘Ultra HD’) and a smattering of 3D Audio by way of Dolby Atmos and Sony 360RA. Presumably responding to Apple Music’s ‘lossless’ announcement, Amazon Music is seeking to follow suit by offering its HD service at no additional cost to all Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers. Good grief! Lossless streaming provision is really hotting up today.
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