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Amazon To Launch Streaming Music Service In Late Summer Or Early Fall: Report (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the another-music-service dept.

If Spotify, Pandora, Google Play Music, YouTube, and Apple Music aren't enough to meet your music demands, you will be delighted to know that Amazon is also working on a streaming music service that it intends to launch in late summer or early fall. According to Reuters, Amazon's upcoming subscription-based service will be offered at $9.99 per month, in line with major rivals. From the report: Although it will be a late entrant to the crowded streaming space, Amazon believes a comprehensive music service is important to its bid to be a one-stop shop for content and goods, the sources said. The new music offering also is intended to increase the appeal of the Amazon Echo, its home speaker, which searches the Internet and orders products from the retailer with voice commands.

22 comments

  1. Oh great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Pay for an Amazon echo to enable spying on myself and then pay yet another fucking monthly fee.

    People in Silicon Valley are made of money, we're not.

  2. Uh? by bhcompy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Amazon Music already exists and already streams music. The only thing they don't have at this time that other channels have are curated channels, but they do offer the similar musician channels that other services all offer(Slacker, Pandora, etc). And, even better, I can upload my entire library and have it available on any device that supports Amazon Music(which is basically everything but WP and Blackberry)

    1. Re:Uh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Yes. Literally the only important word in the Reuters article is 'standalone'. Meaning it won't need to be part of Prime. They are doing the same thing with Amazon Video, which is to be available outside Prime.

    2. Re:Uh? by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 1

      Amazon Music already exists and already streams music.

      I'd assume this would be more in line with the other services and offer unlimited access to their full catalog. Prime Music right now has such a small catalog it's a joke.

    3. Re:Uh? by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Amazon music streaming:
      $9.99 /mo
      9.99X12 = 119.88

      Amazon Prime (including music streaming)
      $99 /yr

      So, you can pay a monthly fee that comes out to $20 more expensive, or just get prime and use their streaming music service. This standalone thing sounds awesome!

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  3. Well, it's better than what Mozilla does with $$$$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    At least Amazon puts their money to somewhat productive uses.

    Now compare that to Mozilla, who apparently spent $15,000 to remove the word "slave" from documentation and code.

    And if you think I'm joking or exaggerating, I'm not.

    Check it out for yourself: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/10/mozilla-open-source-support-first-awards-made/

    Buildbot: $15,000. Buildbot is a continuous build and integration system which has been immensely valuable to Mozilla over the past few years. Their award will be used to remove the term “slave” from all documentation, APIs and tests, and also to make improvements so Buildbot works better in the Amazon EC2 cloud.

    [emphasis added]

  4. 5 choices is crowded? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Things that have more than 5 choices:

    1. PC manufacturers
    2. Ice cream flavors
    3. Members of Menudo (including alumnae, of course)

    This is not a crowded marketplace. If it were, prices would be lower, or quality would be higher.

    1. Re:5 choices is crowded? by GrumpySteen · · Score: 2

      Those are just the top five. There's quite a few more than 5 streaming services out there.

  5. Re: Well, it's better than what Mozilla does with by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    15k is 1 year of a crap salary for one programmer (more like a code monkey). It's peanuts for Mozilla in exchange for a better buildbot (the whole "better integration with Amazon EC2" part that you conveniently ignored in your anti-PC nerd rage).

    Also note that literally everyone will benefit from this, not just Mozilla. Amazon's Yet Another Music Streaming Service benefits Amazon only.

  6. Prime Music by rossdee · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and its part of Amazon Prime, along with the free 2-day shipping and Prime Videos
    But I prefer to buy and download my .MP3's (once) and not have to pay the cellphone company for the extra data

    1. Re:Prime Music by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      so you can pay $9/year for Prime, including streaming music

      or you can pay $120/year for just the music.

      Why is this great news to people?

    2. Re:Prime Music by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you've found a way to belong to Amazon Prime for $9 per year, my friend, I have a bridge to sell you...

    3. Re: Prime Music by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Amazon Music, at least on the iOS, let's you download whatever music is available to you and listen to it offline. The same applies to videos. The only limitation is that you have to use their player, which is very functional and hasn't caused me any grief yet. No mobile data required whatsoever.

  7. Re: Well, it's better than what Mozilla does with by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Errrmmm...awarded money to a company who decided what they wanted to do with it. Supporting oss and all that. How dare they? And, as in other reply, do really useful stuff.

  8. Fall? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Late summer or early fall, so that's January to April next year?
    Oh maybe you mean that in reference to the northern hemisphere????

    I thing in today's world it's not a clever way to refer to dates..

    1. Re:Fall? by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      When talking about a company doing something in the USA, wouldn't it be normal to refer to the seasons in the USA not Australia or South America?

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  9. Coren22 = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Coren22 pays for lies he told about others https://slashdot.org/comments.... + ran when asked questions or confronted on his lies https://slashdot.org/comments....

    1. Re:Coren22 = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" lol by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Oh yes, because almost instantly replying is paying for your lies, and instantly replying is exactly the same as running away.

      You are so full of yourself it is hilarious. Go get some Valium, you could use it.

      Keep linking to that thread, it is hilarious how badly I humiliate you by responding for the 100th time to your garbage!

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    2. Re:Coren22 = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Coren22 you're asked to prove you've done better security programs and guides than apk has. You lie and run instead. Figures. Fake online name using losers like you do it all the time. You're no exception.

    3. Re:Coren22 = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" lol by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      I don't need to prove myself better than you, I have already proven you don't know anything about security, so even a teenager could beat you at security. You also seem to lack a basic understanding of the difference between sarcasm/joking, and lying. And you have no understanding of basic logic.

      https://slashdot.org/comments....

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    4. Re:Coren22 = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Coren22 prove you work in computing security professionally then. You can't anymore than you can produce code you wrote yourself.