Thanks for the report, Michael.
Putting two and two together here, and, I have no insider info, but, this sounds very much like Amazon is using Orastream for its back-end.
Orastream does adaptive bit-rate streaming, and handles the back-end for Neil Young’s service.
Who was in Amazon’s press release yesterday saying Amazon HD was going to “save the earth”, or some such nonsense? Why, it was Neil Young, himself! Interesting…