If you have Prime, you can already listen to Amazon Music free on your Echo, and that has around one million songs available. This sounds like a new service that would have more songs and be competitive with Spotify or Apple Music.
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Amazon Working on Echo $5-a-Month Music Streaming Service
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If you have Prime, you can already listen to Amazon Music free on your Echo, and that has around one million songs available. This sounds like a new service that would have more songs and be competitive with Spotify or Apple Music.
Yeah that's what the big complaint was when they announced the newer streaming service forthcoming. Folks were speculating that it was a going to be a Premium Prime service! No thanks.
You'd be surprised what that "million song library" is comprised of. Most of the time I request a song, it's not in the library and just doing a scan of what's available is slim pickings.
I have Prime and an Amazon Echo and use Amazon Music all the time, so I am very familiar with what is available. For me anyway, it is pretty rare they don't have what I want. I suppose it depends on what kind of music you listen to.
Yes, and the software used to find the songs. A million songs, 2.5 minutes average, played sequentially for 8 hours a day, would take around 15 years to listen too. The more songs, the bigger the pie to divide, the easier it is to keep it interesting. This concept also points out the issue of software curation, also helped buy having more songs. I like you are OK so far with the million songs. Maybe we have a wider genres acceptance, and thus are only in the first 5 years.
Well, I am still waiting for Fleetwood Mac to get back together it that tells you anything.