Should be more useful than it was before. No idea what people are talking about when they call this a downgrade.
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Amazon Gives Prime Subscribers Access to 100 Million Songs
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Apple proclaimed the same a month ago, and we still haven't seen the classic music purchase implementation in a app.
Apple Celebrates Reaching 100 Million Songs on Apple Music
Apple today celebrated reaching the milestone of 100 million songs on Apple Music and commented upon two areas where it is working to improve the...
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But it's nice both are now 100 million. So many of these now with huge catalogs.
As long as you're cool with shuffle. Essentially Pandora with more songs.
I understand the mentality. I have friends and family that went down that road, too.
I've kept it up because I have a lot of instrumental music from video games, which isn't available on most (if any) music streaming services. And rather than spend money on a dedicated service (or two) just to have that music is an expense I didn't want to invest in.
Curation does take time; but in the 20+ years since I started, I've gotten to the point that I only mess with the library once a month at most, if at all. I'm not one for adding tons of new music, as I'm also an old soul at heart, and my library (outside the video game stuff), is rooted in classics of the 70s through the 90s.
Understandable. I worry about the day where we lose this functionality, because they move towards the all streaming future.
It looks like now everything is essentially locked into a genre-wide shuffle/radio mode. This is a massive downgrade even if the number of songs are a lot more. Playlists you create and albums that are listed are now pretty much useless since it won't even shuffle within those it if you select it. It automatically creates a station with semi-related songs from elsewhere based on whatever song you tap on first and you are limited to a certain number of skips. Effectively this invalidates everyone's personal libraries/playlists and to add insult to injury, also removes offline listen.
If I'm not mistaken, back when the library was 2 million songs you could do pretty much play playlists/albums in order or shuffled, or songs on demand. Even if the music selection was much more limited, I'd take the old format over this any time. It's definitely going to confuse/turn off a lot users.
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I'm honestly surprised many people use this. With the offerings from Apple, Google and Spotify... Amazon just seems... meh. I've never thought about using their storage or their music offerings. I do own a few videos through them though and a ton of kindle books. Just... not interested in their music offerings I guess... Plus... Kinda want it to work flawlessly in my car and I know Apple Music does just that.
Commercial, dumb “DJ”s babbling inanities, same 12 songs all week, commercial again…
It was included with Prime. If you don't listen to tons of music, it's worth not paying for a music subscription service--esp. if the songs you like are there. It was nice to be able to periodically put a song of your choice on it though!
The only reason I am holding a Prime account still is because of my student discount, once school is over it's getting cancelled. Their services are not worth what they're charging considering they're scraping and selling data points.
That quote was referring to Apple Music, not Amazon Music. It says Apple Music does not offer on-demand music. Then what is it?Per the original post, it's like a radio station. It's not songs you add to a playlist and select at your leisure. More here:
Amazon Music expands its Prime benefit to offer a full catalog of music and new experiences for podcast lovers
We’ve expanded our music benefit for Prime members to bring them 100 million songs in shuffle mode, the most ad-free top podcasts available, and features that make it easier to discover new content in the Amazon Music app—all at no additional cost to their membership.www.aboutamazon.com
*NM, I read it wrong.
Musk bought them. They’re now $8/month.
Translation: no one was paying for Amazon Music, so we bundled it with Prime like all our other knock off services in hopes someone would actually use it and we could attribute some revenue to it.
Apple Music does have some radio stations, though. And, separate from those, if you say something like “Play some music from the 70’s, what starts playing is what Apple Music considers a radio station.” That’s about as demandish as I’ll ever need.
I think you could ask Apple Music to play a “description” of most of SiriusXM’s stations and the result would likely be close.
Go and find me a way to listen to 100M songs on terrestrial radio first. When's the last time a station played more than a few hundred songs on rotation at any time?
this change pissed off my kids a lot.
They have their own favorite songs and often order it from Echo.
Now it needs some lucky to hear what you actual want.
I keep the prime exclusive for kids to listen music. Now I‘m seriously considering to cancel Prime and sell all my echos.
They have their own favorite songs and often order it from Echo.
Now it needs some lucky to hear what you actual want.
I keep the prime exclusive for kids to listen music. Now I‘m seriously considering to cancel Prime and sell all my echos.
Yeah, if you only listen to one song at a time at "normal" speed. Who has time for that?
Plus, how many of those are just live versions, covers, etc, off the same songs?
Just checked out the updated app. ALL playlists are still there. I do like Amazon playlists better than my Apple Music subscription. I only have this because I wanted the 2TB One plan, and we semi-regularly use Fitness.
spotify has excellent playlists, the g/f subs for this reason.
My curated music of my own still live untouched via iTunes Match, and yes I double dip in paying for Match & Music, a process of moving my Match stuff to my own NAS is currently being researched.
I understand the concept of curated playlists by third parties, and I find myself using them from time to time, otherwise, I would never actively search out a new music. Kinda set in my ways, but I’ll take access for free any day, to expand my listening.
They key is of course, that we actually use on a weekly basis, Amazon prime, so this works well for us.
spotify has excellent playlists, the g/f subs for this reason.
My curated music of my own still live untouched via iTunes Match, and yes I double dip in paying for Match & Music, a process of moving my Match stuff to my own NAS is currently being researched.
I understand the concept of curated playlists by third parties, and I find myself using them from time to time, otherwise, I would never actively search out a new music. Kinda set in my ways, but I’ll take access for free any day, to expand my listening.
They key is of course, that we actually use on a weekly basis, Amazon prime, so this works well for us.