5/24/2023 0 Comments Amazon music claim artist![]() ![]() ![]() Inc's conclusion? "If you give someone a thing as a benefit because they gave you money for your $140 a year subscription membership, it's not great if you suddenly make that thing dramatically worse and expect them to pay you more to make it a better experience." Okay, fine, except that's not the thing Amazon had made before. ![]() They will, however, use a free streaming service even if it means giving up the ability to actually choose the song they want to listen to. They will never pay $10 a month to stream music. If what you want to do is listen to Taylor Swift's latest album, you're going to have to choose Apple Music or Spotify Premium, both of which charge more than $10 a month, or Amazon Music Unlimited, which is $8.99 per month.Īccording to Amazon, 80 percent of people will never do that. Also, because Amazon clearly sees Amazon Music as a thing you use in the background when you just want music playing as you do other things. Here's why: It's cheaper for a streaming service to not let you choose the song you want, but to let you give it an input and start playing similar music. It might start playing songs from other artists instead. If you're lucky, Alexa will start playing songs from Midnights, Swift's latest album. Now, however, that's not what happens at all. It would play Taylor Swift's newest song as long as it was in the catalog of songs available. When you did, your Echo would do exactly that. "Hey Alexa, play Taylor Swift's Anti-Hero," used to be a simple thing you might say. magazine says Amazon's change " Is Making Everyone Angry." And, if you like to listen to classical music you now have the travesty of having great works chopped up and reshuffled into a random play order.Ī headline at Inc. You can't skip forward or back while playing a song either. Because despite the upgrade to 100 million tracks, "all of these - including the albums that were available on Prime Music previously - can only be played in random order!" It made Slashdot reader ayjaym cancel their Amazon Prime subsciption. Remember Amazon's announcement Tuesday that Prime members would get free access to ad-free podcasts and a library of 100 million songs?
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