Feature request: Amazon music

[Alwiz79]

Hi, is there any chance, that we will see phoniebox playing music from amazon music unlimited (instead of spotify). I found the following from @Jaffa on GitHub, but I guess I don't have the skill to somehow implement this to phoniebox: https://github.com/Jaffa/amazon-music

Has somebody running amazon music on a raspberry and could contribute some experience ?

[makhau]

Hi, would be interested in this too. Can't find much in the internet about Amazon prime and unlimited support for music services beneath amazon hardware or andoird phones.

[MiczFlor]

Hi @Alwiz79 @makhau I added the enhancement tag to this thread. I have no amazon music account, so I don't know how to help right now :)

[s-martin]

From my point of view the following steps would be necessary:

• Create a Mopidy backend (maybe based on https://github.com/Jaffa/amazon-music); guide for how to create a Mopidy extension: https://docs.mopidy.com/en/latest/extensiondev/
• Ask maintainers of Mopidy-Iris (https://github.com/jaedb/Iris) to integrate the new Amazon Music backend
• Add new dependencies to Spotify edition installer (trivial)

Overall this is a non-trivial task as Amazon Music doesn’t provide a official SDK or API and this is all reverse engineered; currently the existing amazon-music Python library seems not to work anymore (see https://github.com/Jaffa/amazon-music/issues/30) as Amazon probably made changes. In addition that means a continuous maintenance effort (to fix changes by Amazon) is necessary.

Maybe other users of Mopidy are interested, but I can’t quantify that.

[s-martin]

Amazon provides the Amazon Music Device API, but it’s already deprecated.

Not sure, if the new Amazon Music Web API provides audio playback.