Streamer for Amazon music HD

[alandbush]

1 hour ago, Moppit said:

Alternatively I have a small pc ..is there a way to run Amazon headless using a tablet for control?

 

I have been using Parallels Access successfully on an iPad Air 2 accessing Amazon HD on a Windows 10 pro pc.  A free trial is available should it interest you.

[alandbush]

2 hours ago, Moppit said:

Thanks, tried this and eventually got it to work using a Minix pc, however the resolution is shocking and user interface terrible this way on an 8" tablet. Also, whilst the Amazon app on the Minix showed ultra HD the stream arriving at my DAC was only 44/16. Sadly this is not going to work for me. Fingers crossed Amazon release their APi to Volumio etc so we can take advantage of this service. 

 

What a shame it’s unsuitable for you.

 

For the sake of balance, I’ve attached two iPad screen shots of the Amazon iPad app and the Amazon Windows app via Parallels Access.

Admittedly, the resolutions are different but more than acceptable, for me at least.

 

However, I think we can agree it could be done better by Amazon themselves.  Opening the API is certainly a way forward but allowing the Amazon iPad app to communicate with it’s PC software, via UPNP/Dlna (?), would also be useful.