The Amazon HD streaming service has launched. Providing a large catalogue and rates of up to 24/192 from as little as £12.99 per month I think that this service is going to be dominant in the streaming market. The GUI is not very appealing for an old buffer like me who is mainly interested in classical music but I am in a minority.
The sheer scale of Amazon and the bargain pricing compared to its competitors would strongly suggest to me that dCS should get an API from Amazon and add it to Mosaic a.s.a.p.
Andrew, I understand you guys are looking into the integration of Amazon’s hd to Mosaic. But do you know if the Vivaldi upsampler will work as an upnp/dlna endpoint to Amazon’s proprietary app?
I honestly don’t know, in fact I wasn’t aware that their app had the ability to act as a UPnP server. A few services have tried this and to date very few have been successful in developing something that worked reliably.
That one simply isn’t going to happen without some major movement from Apple. Currently their API is completely closed and, with a couple of exceptions, they don’t allow third-party integrations.
This won’t happen in 2019 and I can’t predict when it will happen. Currently there is a technical issue that is outside of our control until that’s resolved we cannot do anything.
The status is the same as it was at the time of my last response in November. We can’t even begin investigating an implementation until some technical issues outside of our control are resolved.
