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It depends...

In Reply to: If you like music, you don't care. posted by MannyE on October 12, 2016 at 13:09:14:

I often don't care -too much- whether internet streamed music is somewhat lossy or not. When I stream from a service I'm in it for the musical enjoyment and discovery, not to dissect and overthink sound quality to death as so many audiophiles do. I'm a music lover first, an audiophool second.

That being said, I find Amazon Music App to be a joy to use especially in the car. And it sounds comparable to Spotify, and better than Pandora.

In addition to Amazon's vast library, I can also stream anything that I have previously purchased from them on CD or Vinyl, and I have purchased plenty over the past decade or so.

I use my Echo mostly for weather reports, news, traffic, stock prices, weights and measures, etc. "Alexa, play Aerosmith".

Isn't Amazon Music "free" with Amazon Prime? I'm not paying extra for Amazon Music on my Echo or through the App on my iPhone.

For more serious sit down and listen sessions, I play my own Library consisting of CD rips and hi-res music files via my Mac Mini->DAC or Mac Mini->Network->microRendu->DAC

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Follow Ups Full Thread

Topic - Echo Dot - Now This Is Interesting - SamA 06:08:53 10/12/16 (12)

Amazon Bitrate - MannyE 07:02:39 10/12/16 (11)

RE: Amazon Bitrate - DrChaos 14:50:22 10/12/16 (0)

Less resolution than Spotify.... - Ivan303 07:54:31 10/12/16 (9)

RE: Less resolution than Spotify.... - 6bq5 10:23:56 10/12/16 (8)

RE: Less resolution than Spotify.... - mkuller 14:18:12 10/12/16 (0)

RE: Less resolution than Spotify.... - mlsstl 12:10:34 10/12/16 (0)

If you're using earbuds on a cell phone... - Ivan303 11:15:55 10/12/16 (5)

RE: If you're using earbuds on a cell phone... - Awe-d-o-file 11:53:01 10/12/16 (4)

If you like music, you don't care. - MannyE 13:09:14 10/12/16 (3)

It depends... - AbeCollins 15:46:30 10/12/16 (2)

RE: It depends... - mlsstl 13:03:55 10/13/16 (0)

RE: It depends... - MannyE 17:19:15 10/12/16 (0)

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It depends... - AbeCollins 15:46:30 10/12/16 (2)

RE: It depends... - mlsstl 13:03:55 10/13/16 (0)

RE: It depends... - MannyE 17:19:15 10/12/16 (0)

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