Likewise, I also would like to know which department/email would be the best to contact. I have both Roon & Amazon, and have wished for an integration of both for some time.
Careful what you wish for. A few Amazon services that were previously advert free are now having adverts inserted into the streams despite being paid services. The Prime video service now has adverts. Users of Echo Show devices now have adverts sent to them on their devices too. The Echo Show 8 Photo Edition is also getting adverts as Amazon are discontinuing the paid-for photo serving service it uses. That device had no other purpose than to show you your own photos…
All the forthcoming AI will need paying for somehow too so don’t be too surprised if Amazon Music turns into the equivalent of the Spotify free tier with adverts and restricted functionality.
From Roon’s perspective, perhaps being part of a much larger company will improve the relationship with Amazon and speed up implementation of the service in Roon?
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Yep, and although a different topic, very annoying what Amazon are doing here. P!sses me right off after many years of paying for their service. The way of the world now. Big organisations claiming they aren’t making money yet the owners are billionaires. Oh well, I must be missing something.
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What could end up happening of course is that Amazon customers get to pay extra for no adverts (as happened with Prime) and extra for a Roon integration version of Amazon Music. Amazon have no other way of monetizing a Roon integration service. At least that way Roon users don’t have to pay for it through Roon monthly subs if they don’t use the service.
I cancelled my prime subscription when they introduced ads in movies. I buy buy very little from them, only when it’s impossible to get on the high street.
We shouldn’t let them anywhere near Roon imo.
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I just came across another regional band where all there albums were only available on Amazon Music Unlimited. Tidal and Qobuz only had one or two of their most popular albums. It would be so nice to see Amazon get on board with Roon. Given that Roon also encourages CD libraries…I don’t see how this couldn’t be a win-win for both Amazon and Roon Labs.
Wishing for and posting about something that has not happened and probably will not happen accomplishes nothing.
If the music matters that much, buy it via physical media or download.
AJ
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Indeed. Last month it was Downloadfest on Qobuz and I got several albums with big discounts there. Streaming is all and good but having my own collection is even better.
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I downloaded Amazon Music with supposedly their highest quality ( a real misnomer) nothing is hires and I even transferred several high hires self curated playlists from Qobuz and TIDAL none played at any level but FLAC even their own music despite me choosing their highest most expensive format was never 192/24.
I don’t have a shabby system all Schiit components new Rggy and Yggy.
SO ROON please NEVER accept Amazon Music.
I immediately cancelled them!!
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You know that Hi Res can also be FLAC in Amazon music?
Amazon does have quite a bit of Hi Res content on its streaming service.
Flac is a file format not a resolution and goes up to 192/24. Amazon Music Unlimited has lots of Hires content likely same as other services. Not all
Music is released at higher rates either. Anything above 44.1/16 is classed as high res. They don’t sell any music in hires only stream it via their paid service. Getting it into your system at highres is the difficult part and not all devices have that ability to you won’t get it via Airplay or Chromecast either. Using a pc last time I heard wasn’t exclusive so not bit perfect.
I’m not sure anyone considers 44.1/16 as high resolution, but it can be lossless. I think 48/24 and higher is considered high resolution. I guess that’s what you said, isn’t it? I should learn to read.
Actually 352.8 kHz…(DXD)
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When you get to those dizzy heights of bit rates/sample rates, I stick with .wav
Ok, 1 SSD per album is overkill 
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44.1khz 24bit is also considered high resolution on Qobuz.
I would love to see roon working with more niche companies like KKBox but also ototoy in Japan and hiresaudio , onkyo Japan , Neil young archives and integration of online stores where you get to purchase files.
Lots of potential there 
But no interest in Amazon… they will just introduce ads between songs .
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44.1/24 is high res.
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Not seen any myself higher than 192/24 but I dont go looking.
"Sample rates
Common sample rates for high-resolution audio are 96 kHz and 192 kHz. However, other sample rates, such as 44.1 kHz/24-bit, 48 kHz/24-bit, and 88.2 kHz/24-bit, are also considered high-resolution."
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