You most likely don’t download your music anymore, keeping it on a series of continuously backed up hard drives. While it’s nice that it is offering HD streaming through its subscription music service, it kind of sucks that it can’t even offer the same download quality found on sites like Bandcamp, where I purchase as much music as possible (in protest to Amazon).Īll that doesn’t matter to you probably. I have never heard back from Amazon, through Twitter or email on this issue. So if you purchase music at Amazon, you are basically getting screwed out of the best quality music possible. Lossy files, the shit we are forced to download from Amazon, compress everything at the same rate.

They are just concerned with qualityĭifferent tracks from the same album could be different sizes, with lossless it just works to export the highest quality possible.

You might think it’s a small thing, but lossless files don’t give a shit about file size. Sure, FLAC increases the size exponentially, but I’m purchasing this music so should have the option. And don’t think for a second I haven’t reached out to Amazon numerous times to ask why music purchases aren’t offered as at 320kbps, much less high quality lossless (FLAC) files. When you purchase music on Amazon to add to your own personal library of awesome music as I did this morning, there is still no option to download anything but 256kbps bit rate Mp3 files.

Music at a low bit rate when it should strive to do better there. While it is so focused on streaming, it has forgotten that it also sells music. I care about a problem with music that Amazon hasn’t addressed. The pricing tier is what it is and you can read about it here, but I don’t care about that. It’s a smart move by Amazon, as the market for HD music is tight at the moment. To this point, only Tidal and some other streaming services I’ve never heard of offer HD streaming, while Spotify and Apple offer the pleasure of grated crap into your ears. Amazon has finally launched an HD music streaming service.

Buying mp3 music on amazon