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

Posted by msmash on Friday June 10, 2016 @10:45AM 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.

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Uh? by bhcompy · 2016-06-10 10:51 · 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)