To rub salt to wound, Amazon arbitrarily labels their songs “Ultra HD” even if they are only 24bit/44.1kHz or 24bit/48kHz even though these resolutions are generally not considered “high resolution” in the community. I have many others have complained to Amazon support repeatedly, but as of now, Amazon has no plans to repair this huge flaw in the Amazon music app. Nope, Amazon music exclusive mode does NOT “change the output bitrate and bit-depth automatically to match the content.” The only way to match the Amazon music file bitrate/sample rate to one’s music playback chain is to manually change Windows (or Mac’s) mixer setting EVERY time the Amazon songs’ resolution changes. a set of Bluetooth speakers) and then clicking the little Exclusive Mode slider, as shown below. You can switch on Exclusive Mode by clicking on the little speaker icon in the bottom right of the Amazon Music window, selecting your chosen playback source (ie. That means that your music playback won’t be interrupted by the notification chirps that alert you to new emails or even those annoying autoplaying video ads that many web pages include (any auto-playing ads that might appear on this website are Oscar-winning productions and should be watched intently). Basically, it devotes the selected speaker exclusively to the sound from Amazon Music, cutting out all other computer sounds. Amazon Music Exclusive ModeĪmazon’s Exclusive Mode is actually a very neat feature that I haven’t seen in other streaming music apps. What does Exclusive Mode do? Wonder no more. It appears as an option when you select which set of speakers you want the music to play from.

If you’re using the Amazon Music app on your computer, you may have noticed a setting called Exclusive Mode.

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