Recent content by Brantome

Yeah, I think this article is totally misreading what Matter is - it’s a common smart home device protocol that the big names are supporting, and has nothing to do with the voice assistants themselves per se. Headline is misleading, if not just plain wrong…

You don’t need to be a Prime customer to use Amazon Music, they’re separate services - all that being a Prime customer offers you is a discount on some tiers.

Where in the EU are you? Qobuz has been £14.99 in the uk for a while http://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/music/streaming/offers?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7YiN24H86AIVmLPtCh3neQwJEAAYASACEgLED_D_BwE&qbzc=st-m&qbzs=adwords

Amazon Music does have a free tier , and surprised you didn’t mention Prime Music and its 2m track catalogue that comes as part of being a Prime member. Also, the price for an HD family subscription wipes the floor compared to the other hires options...

Probably a fair point - they’ve been pushing it hard of late, and despite its shortcomings, I still prefer hearing most of my stuff (even tracks on my own which I had previously uploaded) playing at least in CD quality now. It helps that I have the family subscription which spreads the costs...

afaicr, they fixed the SD dropout issue. See the Amazon forums

Yeah, but the API Amazon have made available to third parties like Denon/Heos, Bluesound etc doesn‘t provide access to your music library/playlists thru the third party app, and playing to your device via Alexa or casting from the Amazon Music app caps output at 24/44.1 . And that goes without...

“Alexa can’t play hi-res content… well, Amazon can, but we can’t.” Strictry speaking, Alexa only plays the full range of hi-res content to the Echo Studio - it caps output at 24/44.1 to any other device, maybe even the echo link/amp, even if the output device supports up to 24/192. Frankly...