[dilbertprogrammer]

I believe that was broken from the very beginning and was never fixed, shows how much amazon cares.
You need to follow album of the artist to show up in followed list.

Ah - nice. Thanks for the tip! I'll give that a shot!

 

[originalsnuffy]

Try going to your settings and changing the playback mode from "HD" to "Standard". I'm not joking... I preferred Tidal in Kernal Streaming mode from Audrivana over Amazon until I switched to "Standard Mode". Now Amazon is at least equal sonically....

Standard playback mode must be technically inferior but to my ears it is such an improvement. It is less bright, and more focused than "HD" mode. Tonally I prefer it and detail is exactly the same as HD mode IMHO.

You do know that the Standard setting is basically MP3 at 320?

 

[originalsnuffy]

I use the Amazon app. on the Source PC to instruct the download, but I direct the download to my second PC which is also connected to the same router, but on the other side of the room. The following video instructed me how to do this. Then I play music from Amazon desktop program on my source PC- but the music is being fetched from the hard drive of my fanless second PC where I originally placed the download which is connected to the same network. In other words, my second PC is being uses as a NAS. The results are both fuller and more analogue sound, and noticeably better detail than when streaming direct.

Hey, can more than one device access the downloaded files on your NAS? Or just the main PC?

To clarify, can I run Amazon HD on a laptop for example and find music files on the PC server?

By the way, if you are really sophisticated you can can configure the. PC in a RAID array. But it is much easier to do that on a dedicated NAS. I can also access my NAS remotely for a number of uses including high quality music streaming.

 

[rsbrsvp]

I do not know if more than one device can access the downloaded music to the NAS.

 

[rkw]

Hey, can more than one device access the downloaded files on your NAS? Or just the main PC?

The music labels are very strict in their licensing agreements about how streaming services must handle downloaded files. Usually the file will be DRM encoded so that it can only be played by the same app that downloaded it.

 

[Andrew_WOT]

You can have multiple instances of amazon player (single account) playing offline (downloaded) files, but only one instance streaming online.
Family plan allows multiple streaming instances.

 

[rkw]

You can have multiple instances of amazon player (single account) playing offline (downloaded) files, but only one instance streaming online.
Family plan allows multiple streaming instances.

But if one instance downloads a file to a NAS, can any other instance play that downloaded file? This was the question that was asked.

 

[PlantsmanTX]

Amazon Music's Windows app was updated today, and now the playing times of songs have stopped being displayed. Anybody else having that problem?

 

[rids57]

Amazon Music's Windows app was updated today, and now the playing times of songs have stopped being displayed. Anybody else having that problem?

Same here

 

[rlanger]

Amazon Music's Windows app was updated today, and now the playing times of songs have stopped being displayed. Anybody else having that problem?

If you hover your mouse over the bottom part of the player where the music controls are, the timer appears in the bottom right corner of the window.

 

[PlantsmanTX]

Same here

They added podcasts, and took away playing time listings. Really though, it has to be some kind of database glitch. I chatted with support and they just said they would inform "the team". I tried two of the three things they recommend, to no avail. I didn't delete the data folder, but I doubt it would have worked.

There are three different ways to refresh data.

1. Sign Out and Sign In to the Amazon Music app to enable a library resync and refresh data.
2. Remove the Data folderthat is in the following locations:
   
   1. Windows: Click the start menu and in the search box type: %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Amazon Music\Data and hit enter.
   2. Mac: In Finder, type shift-command-g to open "go to folder" window and type: ~/Library/Application Support/Amazon Music/Data
3. Go to Profile > Preferences > Advanced > Reload My Music? and click on Start Reload.

 

[PlantsmanTX]

If you hover your mouse over the bottom part of the player where the music controls are, the timer appears in the bottom right corner of the window.

Yes, you can see the playing time by doing that after the track starts playing, but there's obviously a problem:

 

[rids57]

it shows how long the track's been playing and how much is left to go - only way of getting the total duration is add the two, which is just plain silly

 

[PlantsmanTX]

it shows how long the track's been playing and how much is left to go - only way of getting the total duration is add the two, which is just plain silly

The funny thing is that it still shows the playing times of the songs in playlists.

 

[dharmasteve]

Is the new Amazon HD app much slower? On my HIBy R5 it seems to be a lot slower. Anyone else experiencing Amazon Snail Speed HD?