I just checked in KEF’s Connect app the bitrate on one of the Amazon prime radio stations and it’s coming in FLAC 48/16.
But I only have the standard prime membership shuffle music plan, not the upgraded unlimited music plan that I thought you needed to get FLAC CD-quality.
Is Connect reporting accurately? Playing on LS50W2s.
Which station is showing that?
That info looks bogus: 16/48 stereo has a rate of 1536kbps, not 1411 (that would be 16/44.1).
Yeah if Opus will be 48 as it doesn’t do 44.1
You using Amazon cast or the Wiim app?
I can’t check now as their own app offered me a free trial again so I took it. That radio shows as being UHD for me now. This is using Amazon cast to the Wiim.
Flac rate isn’t fixed due to its compression method and most apps I know don’t show the full pcm rate just the bitrate that the file gives as metadata which is bogus. UAPP every track is a different rate.
It’s hard to believe it’s a coincidence that the compressed rate is exactly the rate of red book, but I guess it’s possible…
I am playing an album now 44.1/16 UAPP shows 653/702/699 it goes on, none are near redbook. As I said they read what the files seems to give as a data rate which is bogus not sure how it works it out. Playing redbook on the Wiim from a local file does show the correct pcm fixed rate. But not from Amazon Music or any other streaming service.
Not that I know of. It’s some metadata issue possibly at the encode stage where it’s getting the original rates.
That would be a compression of about 8%. I think FLAC should do better than that.
Just double checked and no, I’m still on the standard prime level.
