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Amazon Launches New 'Music Unlimited' Service, Starts At $4/Month For Use On Just One Echo (geekwire.com)
Speaking of giant ecommerce companies, Amazon has launched a streaming music service dubbed, Amazon Music Unlimited, that starts at $3.99 (cheaper than Spotify or Apple Music) and has tens of millions of songs. There's a catch, however. The service has three payment tiers, but the lowest one -- which again, costs $3.99 -- only works with company's Amazon Echo, or Echo Dot, or Amazon Tap speakers. GeekWire adds: To use Amazon Music Unlimited on multiple devices, including smartphones, you'll need to pay $7.99 if you're an Amazon Prime member, or $9.99 if you're not. In a world where people increasingly expect everything to work everywhere, the Echo-only tier might seem out of place, even at less than $4 a month. But Amazon is pitching the option as an add-on experience for Echo owners, going beyond the 2 million tracks available in the existing Amazon Prime Music service that comes with the $99/year Amazon Prime subscription. The company is also using some smart computing behind the scenes to differentiate the experience. For example, Echo users will be able to ask Alexa to "play the new song by Adele."
Free music is free. Amazon Music isn't worth $4 while Jango lives.
I'm not sure why they're dragging their ass on releasing the echo in Canada. It makes no sense.
"Playing the Chainsmokers."
No, no, I said the cocksuckers, and I meant the cocksuckers! Goddammit give me the fucking keyboard.
Subscribed to it for a decade, had a sad when it closed down. Now I just listen to CDs, depending on reviews to let me guess what I might like.
Yes, pay for eavesdropping! Do it! Just think: instead of having to deal with those "complicated" digital audio files, you can pay one of the world's largest international corporations to record everything happening in your household, day and night! What a deal!
I don't respond to AC's.
... Aaaaannnd, like every single other music streaming service that ever has existed, it will host exactly zero content that I actually want.
Back to bandcamp and paying artists closer to directly!
Ads and all... at least it's free to listen to.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
the fucking thing isn't even *stereo*
If I wanna listen to the theme song of Lazytown, or Aqua's classic "Barbie Girl" 100 times on repeat, it's nobody's business except for foobar2000's internal playlist and my local SSD feeding it the song and probably keeping it in RAM all the time.
It's pointless to even attempt to figure out how people think, because they simply don't.
and not the one that let me pirate crap, but the one that introduced me to Power Quest, Dragonforce, Labyrinth and the couple of tracks that came out of Frostweaver before they disappeared. I miss there being a viable alternative to the RIAA's mafioso.
For a while E-Music worked great, but they got big in Europe and jacked up their prices to silly levels. Now if I want to listen to a band I've gotta buy the CD. That's fine for something I already know I like, but it took a long time for In Flames to grow on me. I love 'em now, but just one listen and I'd passed 'em up as another meh death metal band. I liked paying $15/mo for 4 or 5 albums worth of music. I'd usually only find 1 a month that stuck, but to get that same experience at current prices would be $50-$60/mo. I'm 40, I can't spend that kinda money on entertainment.
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just get spotify.
there's very obscure stuff there due to it being relatively simple to find a way to submit your tracks to be included.
You should use Pandora because Pandora is Pandora and everyone knows to use Pandora because Pandora is Pandora. Pandora!
You should live in America because America is the greatest and everyone knows America is the greatest. America!
So.. they never heard of Sony's old Music Unlimited?