I guess it’s a regional thing too because I looked for Epica and found that Qobuz had 18 albums and 22 EP’s and Singles. Which is more than wikipedia says they have. They are certainly not missing most of them.
Nobody ‘needs’ that, but it’s a nice option. And I see more than 70 versions of that on Qobuz. Not trying to be argumentative, but there is always more that meets the eye. Regionality, Amazon not working WITH Roon, Cost of extra services, etc. all play on the outcome. Nobody ‘needs’ Roon either, but it’s a pretty great service and I use it every day with great joy. I hear, listen to and discover so much more music that I would ever have otherwise. I was severely disappointed with Roon at first. But that was because I was using sub-optimal equipment. I invested in a NUC i7 to run ROCK which was a HUGE game changer, placed my library on a Synology NAS, and then got a Simaudio Moon 280D.
I’m a happy Roon camper and both my wife and I love it all!
I’ve asked for this in the past…DEFINITELY want integration of Amazon Music!! I assume, like me, many others are Prime Amazon customers and pay the relatively small amount for Amazon Music. I’ve already cancelled TIDAL because I prefer Qobuz much more…but if Roon adds the integration of Amazon Music, I would probably cancel Qobuz as well.
As discussed unlimited times, it is not Roon’s decision to integrate Apple Music and Amazon Prime. Roon has been in negotiation with them and they said NO.
I agree. Amazon is far superior to Qobuz: Dolby Atmos, a daily mix that reflects my music, 360 audio, shuffling of classical tracks rather than entire albums, sensible radio based on a track of my choice, and I can listen to it on my TV and get Dolby Atmos on my home cinema speakers. The only downside is the lack of multi-room functionality, for which I use Roon/Qobuz. I’ve stopped listening to Qobuz on my headphones outside the home, preferring Amazon with Dolby Atmos providing more depth.
I doubt very much if Amazon music will ever be on Roon and that’s a lot to do with how hard/impossible Amazon are to deal with and Qoboz is so much better quality and o/s. I agree thou as much as I love Roon if you don’t subscribe to Qobuz or Tidal and also have a library of ripped CD’s then Roon is not needed
I’m a lifetime Roon subscriber - run it on a QNAP server for the past 5 years - roughly 20k albums on the server -
I used Roon for roughly 2 years before subscribing to Tidal -
So there are many people like me that appreciate the extended metadata info on their owned material and can still love Roon without a subscription to a service.
For me - Tidal has more than enough selection to keep me happy forever - I have Spotify and Amazon music as well - but rarely use them - I’m retired and spend at least 3 hours a day listening to music and exploring Roon rabbit holes.
I’d love to believe you. Can you provide some proof, such as a pic of your external DAC showing the sample rate it’s receiving from your phone? I gave up on this a couple of years ago as, at least with iOS, the consensus was that everything was being downsampled to 44.1khz.
I also would like to have Amazon Music Support. I already had Qobuz and Amazon is a backup for anything missing in Qobuz. For prime members Amazon is cheaper than Tidal and there is no way for me to change from Qobuz to Tidal mainly because of 2 reasons:
1.) I had a Tidal trial and found many albums which are HiRes in Obus and plain 44.1/16 in Tidal
2.) Qobuz has album booklets with many albums, Tidal doesn’t
Besides, the cheap WiiM streamers have Amazon Music support!
If Amazon is so hard to deal with, why is it natively supported on my Eversolo DMP-A6 and Wiim Pro Plus? If those devices can include Amazon support, then it shouldn’t be hard for Roon to do so.
Those are hardware devices using the Amazon Music app. Roon is a music player app, not a piece of hardware. Why can’t Apple Music play Amazon Music? Why can’t Roon play Apple Music or Apple Music play Roon? They are competing apps. They all could if both parties involved agreed and did the work required to make it happen.
This question has been asked and answered many times.