Amazon Music not playing in HD

stewie3128

Steps to reproduce:
Visit/log in to music.amazon.com

Expected behavior:
Music playback in HD or higher, or at least have the option to play back at HD or higher.

Orion, OS version; hardware type:
Orion 0.99.125-beta
Mac Studio M1 Ultra

Vlad

stewie3128 Can you compare with Safari?

Dustin

I can confirm this bug. I logged into music.amazon with Orion and played back a song and compared to Safari. Orion's playback was very, very low bitrate. I'd imagine it's playing back the lowest bitrate available.

Vlad

Was not able to reproduce, but granted my ear is not trained to hear difference. How this can be empirically confirmed?

Dustin

I poked around a whole bunch to see if I could find a bitrate listing or something useful but I couldn't find anything. I am not an Amazon Music user so I've run out of ideas.

I did test a bunch more just to see for certain but actually I couldn't definitively reproduce this as an Orion bug. I have had some instances where the music playing from Safari was low quality and Orion was fine. Perhaps this is a WebKit bug?

In my testing I did try to switch useragents around just to see but Amazon was returning errors for almost all of them:

Vlad

Dustin Yeah being a WebKit issue (or amazon website issue) were on the top of my head too. We do not do anything specific with music for this to be an Orion issue. Thanks for checking all this!