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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 25 for Windows => Topic started by: kenterickson on October 23, 2019, 09:50:16 am
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Amazon Prime Music is now streaming HD, up to 24/192 for a significantly lower monthly price than Tidal. I will be switching from Tidal to Amazon. Is there a way to integrate Amazon Music with MC and JRemote? If not, is there any plan to do so?
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Right now, nope not possible to use with JRemote. May be able to get it working with the WDM driver on Windows with an app or browser, but no integration in the app itself or anything like that.
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,122452.0.html
Basically, too soon to tell if it's doable or what it'd take to do it (especially since there's no public API for Amazon Prime Music) but it's on the consideration road map list for MC26.
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Amazon Prime Music is now streaming HD, up to 24/192 for a significantly lower monthly price than Tidal. I will be switching from Tidal to Amazon. Is there a way to integrate Amazon Music with MC and JRemote? If not, is there any plan to do so?
You can integrate it via streaming per this link:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,122517.msg849096.html#msg849096 (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,122517.msg849096.html#msg849096)
However, your only going to get CD level response. Amazon only provides HD audio through its app. It seems pretty clear that Amazon will only allow access to its HD library via its app or possibly via a licensed API
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Basically, too soon to tell if it's doable or what it'd take to do it (especially since there's no public API for Amazon Prime Music) but it's on the consideration road map list for MC26.
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Would be a very nice to have. I am hoping to use the DSP equalizer function in MC25 to compensate for my high frequency hearing loss. Don't think I can do anything like that with my Integra receiver.
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I know that this post has gotten stale but I continue to be impressed with and enjoy Amazon Music. It occurred to me that integration of streaming sources is crucial to me. My system includes a Synology NAS with 4-5 TBytes of music but because of the convenience and comprehensiveness of streaming services I rarely go the NAS drive for music any more.
I would think that if JRiver is to thrive in the future, and I hope it does, integration with streaming sources is vital. This post is really just a vote of encouragement to get that integration done.
Thanks
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Unfortunately, there's no public API for Amazon Music and as of right now, it looks like Amazon chooses who to partner with and allow an integration of their music service.
Even if JRiver were to reverse engineer how Amazon Music works and integrate it, I suspect it could lead to issues like Amazon actively preventing them from using Amazon Music within MC or they could just sue JRiver over it. I'd guess it'd probably be the latter, because JRiver is a US-based company so they have to be careful when considering such things.
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I know that this post has gotten stale but I continue to be impressed with and enjoy Amazon Music. It occurred to me that integration of streaming sources is crucial to me. My system includes a Synology NAS with 4-5 TBytes of music but because of the convenience and comprehensiveness of streaming services I rarely go the NAS drive for music any more.
I would think that if JRiver is to thrive in the future, and I hope it does, integration with streaming sources is vital. This post is really just a vote of encouragement to get that integration done.
It's not impossible. We just need Amazon to help.
In the meantime, take a look at JRiver's Cloudplay.
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Other devices I have.... Marantz HEOS and Sonos speakers both have Amazon integrated but strangely the HEOS version doesn’t have user customization of playlists.
Sonos, I think has only CD quality but HEOS plays Hi Res.
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It seems that you can use the WDM driver with Amazon Music when your external DAC is directly connected to the computer (via USB). If you are connecting to your external DAC via ethernet and use DLNA, the WDM driver will not work, and I receive an error in JRemote "There was a problem controlling the selected DLNA device. Double check your device, server, and network settings." Can anyone further confirm that using Amazon Music from the computer will not stream to a DLNA device even with the WDM driver turned on? I was able to stream to my computer speakers using WDM driver and the internal computer DAC, but that is not using my external DAC.
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No surprise. When you're playing via USB, your computer is using WDM as the sound driver. When you're playing to DLNA, your computer is effectively sending the file to the DLNA device and it has to process it to make sound.
It's not a WDM problem.