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Amazon Gives Prime Subscribers Access to 100 Million Songs
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Well, as i wrote i used to dump to mp3, mp3tag(add,clean, remove tags), search highres albums cover, or scan and crop, color correct, sort, rename files by defined naming convention, etc. that took approx 20mins per Album.
If i sum up, i wasted half a year of my limited +/-80ys(if all goes well) lifetime, maybe even a full year.
Someday I will pass away and the crap will be deleted anyway, so yes it was a pure waste of time.
Anything you do is better than wasting your time with curating music, let others do it for you.
Using libraries of others does not force you to intake media that you don't want.
Furthermore, listening to music is something i do while doing other stuff, curating music is something that needs 100% of you attention.
believe me, just buy it from eBay, these small prime things already calculated delivery costs into the price.
The Verge has an interesting interview with Steve Boom:
https://www.theverge.com/23433343/a...ghts-spotify-apple-streaming-podcasts-decoder
https://www.theverge.com/23433343/a...ghts-spotify-apple-streaming-podcasts-decoder
Still worthless until you can choose your own playlists. We tried for 30 minutes to play an album start to finish but it kept switching to songs we didn’t like or want to listen to. Gave up and streamed them from Apple Music instead. It’s far superior.
I am not overpaying for the cables, the price of the ones I choose are good. I'll continue buying them from Amazon, but I do appreciate the advice.
So you $15/month for a specific scenario that is likely not the norm all because you can’t wait a few days…I’m not one to judge but that’s a bad example.
Does it offer movies and TV shows? How about free deliveries? Apple Music offers a small fraction of what Prime is.
Yep. You gotta love free radio. They play the same songs over and over and over in between lengthy commercials. Instead of telling them your preferences...you're stuck listening to whatever that affiliate was paid to play. Really the only preference you get is choosing the music genre (I.E. Pop station, Rock station, Jazz station, etc.)
Good for Amazon.
I looooove Amazon and Amazon Prime. Use them daily.
Outside of groceries there’s hardly anything I don’t buy from them.
Also the Amazon Prime card is a no-brainer.
Since it came out I usually only cash out at the end of the year and I basically get all the Christmas presents I give to people for for free.
Fantastic stuff.
I looooove Amazon and Amazon Prime. Use them daily.
Outside of groceries there’s hardly anything I don’t buy from them.
Also the Amazon Prime card is a no-brainer.
Since it came out I usually only cash out at the end of the year and I basically get all the Christmas presents I give to people for for free.
Fantastic stuff.
Except the radio stations just play the same twenty or so songs over and over again. What I like with Spotify. Even with old music. If I don't set up a repeating album or playlist. It'll play random music related to my original request I've never heard before. Perhaps simply don't remember. Anyways, it's boosted the variety I never got in the radio days.
If you buy a lot, it's nothing. I save hundreds and hundreds every year with the free shipping.
But does it still let you pick certain songs on demand and will prompt you if Unlimited only?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
99.9 Hawk is a good one here for variety. I have streaming do the same junk. You don't have to restart the list every time I play it again.
It's been $139 for a while now. I subscribe to it, but I don't think the free shipping is worth the price as I don't get that much stuff delivered and don't watch that much video. I dislike their move to commercials either.
This change really made things difficult for me last night. For the past few years, my kids have been going to sleep every night listening to a sleep music playlist. They know the songs, they expect the songs. It's what helps their brains settle down and fall asleep.
All of a sudden last night, instead of playing the playlist, it says "shuffling songs like the ones of the sleep music playlist" or something like that. So now I'm scrambling to figure out what's going on, and end up having to sign up for Amazon Music Unlimited. At least it's a free month before I start paying, so I have a few weeks to figure out if there's a cheaper solution.
All of a sudden last night, instead of playing the playlist, it says "shuffling songs like the ones of the sleep music playlist" or something like that. So now I'm scrambling to figure out what's going on, and end up having to sign up for Amazon Music Unlimited. At least it's a free month before I start paying, so I have a few weeks to figure out if there's a cheaper solution.
I don't think it's very useful to make that kind of reasoning. If you go on those sites that compare prices from all stores, you'll see that many, many products that are on listed on Amazon (I'll made up an example) as $15 + free prime shipping are listed as $10 + 5$ shipping somewhere else, or even less. So sometimes you're paying for that "free shipping" twice, if you see things that way, and also giving away your loyalty to Jeff.
Of course, there's much more to it. Customer support, return policy and... laziness, you just know you find things, get them quick and have no problems. I've been enjoying prime for a decade now. But for the amount of stuff I buy, 50 euros a year is already too much for me. I let them know and quit.
About the other services, that's exactly what I want to avoid: becoming dependent on them for a lot of stuff so that I can't quit any single one of them for a better one when I feel there's better quality or price somewhere else.
More times than not, for me at least, Amazon is less expensive AND has free shipping. I also like being able to run 2 miles down the road to return anything I don't want to keep.
And that $15 total item outside Amazon will take like a week to just ship. I can have stuff from Amazon on Sunday that I ordered Saturday evening
Yeah, the "shopping advice" from some here is missing the mark. I get the sense they don't actually shop at Amazon and assume the prices are inflated.
With ads
At who-knows-what bitrate
Which plays a video along with the audio
And you cant download for offline listening