Amazon has begun rolling out its Amazon Music HD service in Spain, Italy and France a year after launching the higher quality subscription tier in the US, Germany and Japan. The plan lets customers stream more than 60 million songs in High Definition audio (16-bit files with sample rates of 44.1kHz and above) plus millions more songs in Ultra HD (24-bit files with a sample rate of 96 kHz to 192 kHz).
Music HD will be available via the Amazon Music Unlimited app on Android, iOS and desktop platforms as well as the company’s Fire and Echo devices, not to mention third-party devices from Denon, Marantz, Sonos, Sennheiser and others. It costs EUR 14.99 a month for new subscribers or an extra EUR 5 a month for existing Amazon Music subscribers, with new users given a free 90-day trial while existing users won’t be charged the extra EUR 5 for the first 3 months.
