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Amazon Music Developer

Audio Formats

Amazon Music offers a wide variety of music formats. In addition to standard definition (SD) audio, some tracks in the Amazon Music catalog are available in high-definition (HD) and ultra-high-definition (UHD) lossless formats. Amazon Music even offers spatial audio in Dolby Atmos and Sony 360 RA formats. Please note that not every audio track is available in all formats.

Only standard definition (SD) is available for the Free and Prime subscription tiers.

Audio formats table

  SD HD UHD Dolby Atmos Sony 360 Reality Audio
(360 RA)
Subscription Tiers Free, Prime, Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Streaming Protocol MPEG-DASH MPEG-DASH MPEG-DASH MPEG-DASH MPEG-DASH
Container File Format ISO BMFF / MP4 ISO BMFF / MP4 ISO BMFF / MP4 ISO BMFF / MP4 ISO BMFF / MP4
DRM / Encryption Widevine L3 / AESI28-CTR Widevine L3 / AESI28-CTR Widevine L3 / AESI28-CTR Widevine L3 / AESI28-CTR Widevine L3 / AESI28-CTR
Audio Format OPUS FLAC FLAC Dolby Digital Plus Joint Object Coding (DD+JOC / EAC3-JOC) MPEG-H (MHA1)
Bit Depth 16 bit 16 bit 24 bit 16 bit 16 bit
Sampling Rate 48 kHz 44.1 kHz 48 kHz
96 kHz (optional)
192 kHz (optional)
48 kHz 48 kHz
Bandwidth Variants 48 kbps
192 kbps
320 kbps
800 kbps (average) 1600 kbps (average)
2800 kbps (average)
5000 kbps (average)
384 kbps (6 channels - not Atmos)
448 kbps (16 bed objects)
768 kbps (16 bed objects)
320 kbps (8 channels, 7.1)
640 kbps (12 channels, 7.1.4)
1024 kbps (12 channels, 7.1.4)
1536 kbps (24 channels, 22.2)

Codecs

Opus SD A lossy codec used to deliver SD audio
FLAC HD A lossless codec used to deliver HD and UHD audio
Dolby Digital Plus Spatial A lossless codec used to deliver Dolby Atmost spatial audio
MPEG-H 3D Spatial A lossless codec used to deliver Sony 360 RA spatial audio