The advantage over CCA is that Alexa casting does support HD (16/44.1) playback on Alexa devices. Alexa remote casting is also a boon, i.e., you can run AMHD app on your Android phone and cast tracks and playlists to your Fire tablet. However gapless playback works pretty well and the sound quality is fine. Still no Ultra HD support (max out at 16/44.1 aka HD) and I doubt it provides a true bitperfect playback. Legally, this is not considered Android and this version has somewhat extended support for things like Alexa cast protocol and sample rate detection. Hence no bitperfect playback the stream gets resampled to a fixed sampling rate instead (16/48 by default but configurable in some cases).Īmazon own devices like Fire tablets run modified Android OS called Fire OS. Yes but you are unlikely to get more than 16/44.1 resolution with them and in most cases digital audio gets routed through Android audio stack before going to external USB DAC. I mean maybe Airplay isn't the worst solution but I think the higher bitrates won't make it there but at least CD quality should be fine? I'm just worried there's too much stuff going on in between that might impact sound quality :/ Is there a good solution to this yet? The only stuff I've seen are commercial solutions like Bluesound node 2i but that's not where I want to go. And I'm lazy so being able to select the next album with the iPhone over a convenient interface while sitting on the couch would be nice! Or from the Mac via USB of course but that's not what I want to do usually because where the DAC is placed isn't where my Mac is. Right now I'm using a HifiBerry DAC+ but I've just ordered a Topping E30 DAC which hopefully will arrive soon.Ĭurrently the only way I can stream is from my iPhone/iPad or Mac to the raspberry via Airplay. Usually I use a Raspberry Pi where I run volumio. The only problem I have with it is how to stream it as they don't have an open API. They really have pretty much any album I can think of and the quality seems really good too. So far Amazon Music HD is the streaming service where I can find the best value for what they charge for their HD service.

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