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james__bean replied to the thread Amazon launches Music HD with lossless streaming.Correct on all counts.
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james__bean reacted to rkw's post in the thread Amazon launches Music HD with lossless streaming with Like.I thought we've already concluded that Amazon exclusive mode is in fact "exclusive" (other sources are blocked from outputting to the...
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james__bean replied to the thread Amazon launches Music HD with lossless streaming.Audiokse stands for Audio KS Endpoint which I assumed meant it was for kernel streaming. Its just a Microsoft library the application...
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james__bean replied to the thread Amazon launches Music HD with lossless streaming.Welp, decided to pour myself some bourbon and try out Qobuz tonight. So first of all, I was wrong about audiokse.dll. Turns out...
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james__bean replied to the thread Amazon launches Music HD with lossless streaming.While certainly interesting, I doubt many people can actually hear anything above 20,000Hz. (Personally I can't hear anything at...
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james__bean reacted to jambaj0e's post in the thread Amazon launches Music HD with lossless streaming with Like.Qobuz vs Tidal (vs Amazon HD) - Frequency Spectrum Analysis This is a good example of how much frequency is lost between Tidal, Qobuz...
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james__bean replied to the thread Amazon launches Music HD with lossless streaming.So from reading Windows documentation, it seems like Amazon Music isn't properly querying the endpoint device for supported frequencies...
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james__bean replied to the thread Amazon launches Music HD with lossless streaming.Kernel Streaming is legacy tech that I believe has been around since Windows XP. Someone else will have to speak to any technical...
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james__bean replied to the thread Amazon launches Music HD with lossless streaming.So it looks like when you enable exclusive mode in both Tidal and Amazon Music, it uses kernel streaming and not wasapi. (audiokse.dll)
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james__bean replied to the thread Amazon launches Music HD with lossless streaming.Someone on reddit was able to get the URL from the log for me. You can download the update directly from here...
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james__bean replied to the thread Amazon launches Music HD with lossless streaming.At the end of the day, the updated version of the application still needs to be downloaded and installed by Windows. I had an old...
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james__bean replied to the thread Amazon launches Music HD with lossless streaming.I have a trial with Amazon that is about to expire. I'm probably sticking with Tidal anyway, but I do want to at least try out the...