True dat. If SJ were alive he would go ballistic if any of his employees suggested Apple should offer a subscription service offering mono music from a can.
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True dat. If SJ were alive he would go ballistic if any of his employees suggested Apple should offer a subscription service offering mono music from a can.
What Amazon is doing it way more innovating than Apple at the moment. Are you even a amazon prime member?? Do you know what the benefits are with a subscription ? https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200444160
Let me know when apple will ever do something like that. I think not.
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The music coming from the Satellites are compressed and makes all the song sounds too muffled. No thanks you can keep it.
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What is the bitrate? If it is still 256kbps MP3 then no thanks as Amazon Music sounds the worst. At MP3 320kbps is the minimum that Play Music sounds great and even then Apple Music 256 AAC sounds even greater.
I've never really minded, honestly. Most places price match amazon. If I need something in two hours I can go buy it lol. That's. It to say two hour delivery wouldn't be awesome. I just don't know how feasible it would be for most addresses. Maybe it's coming with their brick and mortar stores opening across the country.
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People who enjoy traveling and vacationing where there is no cell service might.
I went away somewhere were they have no internet or cell service and bought my Satellite radio. It was torture. Okay poor sound quality I can deal with just listening with a cheap pair of computer speakers. What I could not stand however was hearing the same freaking songs over and over again. How many times I heard Prince "Lets go crazy" or Tears for Fears "Everybody rules the world" and Duran Duran "Hungry like a wolf" I was ready to throw the radio out the window. By the end of the boring week I listen to dead air or my own local music. It was better. After which I never listened to Sirius XM again.
Also forgot to say when it was XM is was great with deep playlists and better stations when I went on trips with no internet or cell service this happened when they merged with Sirius after that week I dropped them.
320kbps is actually the maximum for MP3 (and complete overkill when using a good codec such as LAME).
The Apple branding alone makes it sound better, right?
Great, a company that makes no money now enters the notoriously hard music streaming market. Brilliant leadership as usual by Amazon.
I won't argue that point. I also don't use satellite radio myself.
My point was that people shouldn't be so closed minded. Regular old AM FM rafio is guilty of exactly what you speak of too. This is why I only listen to NPR on live radio. Otherwise I can be certain I'll hear a repeat of at least three songs in a two hour period.
But, if you want music that you haven't stored locally, you do have the satellite option. I also think there are a few FM stations on there and some news reporting channels. So agin, not all bad.
I kind of agree. I had my music encoded at 192kbps MP3 LAME which sounded better than 128kbps AAC iTunes however when I re ripped my music at 192kbps AAC on iTunes it sounds amazing.
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I first got XM in 2002 and it was amazing. Listened for hours a day and heard many deep but familiar songs. Went on road trips with no connection but never got bored with XM radio. Tried Sirius when they had the streams on the internet for free then later on Dish Network and it was terrible. Same songs like FM radio. Then with talks of the merger I got so nervous but saying it will never happen. Well it happened after which it was fine for a month then the service turned into a FM service. Only when I went away and had nothing to listen to except local music I realized how bad the service got.
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Yes, I used it for about a week and TBH, I just didn't get the hype. It was only good for a subset of the things I use Siri for and not as convenient as having it always with me so I ended up returning it.
As for sound quality, I liken it to the equivalent of EarPods... it works, and most people would be fine with it, but it doesn't come close to high quality AirPlay speakers like my JBL L8's.
The biggest problem with this isn't the sound quality, it's the fact that it's tied to the Echo and that's what makes this such a horrible deal. For a few bucks more, music lovers can access music on their smartphones, in their cars, on their Macs/PCs, iPad, etc and also have the freedom to play it on their stereo, Sonos or other high quality Airplay speakers and even the Echo.
Amazon should offer the music service for free, as an inducement to expand Echo market share.
Equivalent to EarPods? Its not that bad......
Though you are not too far off, it's a good speaker but does not match the UE boom 2 for example .
The Amazon dot is the better deal, I'm going to get the dot when it is out and connect it to my B&W Zeppelin .
I'm loving these cheap extensions like the dot and chrome audio, they bring some of my old excellent speakers into 2016 connectivity.
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I'd like to see that, though I suspect the echo might be doing okay.
i would not own one had Siri not been so bad in my opinion. I completely turned off Siri when I could not get it to retrieve the olympics medal tally ..that was the last straw. Not to mention any attempt to get information on the walking dead series just pushed all question to make a purchase on iTunes.
My portable sat radio doesn't have a problem in manhattan. Can't get Amazon under bridges or in the Lincoln tunnel either.
Portable sat radio? That tells me enough about you.
I get all my streaming music services over cellular under almost any bridge I drive or walk under, so maybe you have some special bridges in NY. Lots of things seem to be special in NY. 
lol. Yeah bc they have a product. Meanwhile, Apple has been become the king of nonsensical corporate jargon with a large pinch of Jonny I've dream talk.
wtf does that even mean.
I would not describe myself as anywhere close to being "really into music." I used the Amazon Prime Music service for over a year before getting an Apple Music family plan subscription. The Prime Music selection was terrible, and the music app was surprisingly buggy. You get what you pay for, but even at free I wouldn't really recommend it for most people.
Yeahhh Amazon's Prime/Prime Music/Lending Library/Prime books/Kindle Unlimited/Prime Video thing is getting to be a giant disaster. There are about 100 different price points that you can pay for the exact same book or song or movie from them, and it depends on which of the 5-10 different subscriptions you're a part of.
Really it's kind of sad that Apple's current iTunes/Apple Music setup, as messy as it is, is much, much less convoluted than Amazon's offerings.
Really it's kind of sad that Apple's current iTunes/Apple Music setup, as messy as it is, is much, much less convoluted than Amazon's offerings.
Apple Music executive Jimmy Iovine commented on the future of Apple Music, saying that Apple is"building the right hybrid,"which will be "technologically and culturally adept" and "have a voice," rather than just be a utility to listen to music.
Anyone translate that???
And who said the beats boys would not fit into apple, that waffle is worthy of Markerting award!!!!
Really? My car has a built in sat radio. I have a portable for use in other places and my other vehicles. I live on both coasts so I have a portable sat radio for my spouse and use it on trips when I'm the desert where cell service is spotty. So when you assume....Portable sat radio? That tells me enough about you.
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Yes, they do.
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