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After price update, Amazon Prime members call Amazon Music “unusable”

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Re: After price update, Amazon Prime members call Amazon Music “unusable”

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Post by zoover2020 »

gigel82 wrote: post #10

I was using Amazon Music on my commute. No ads and nice selection (often updated), plus included with Prime (which I'm paying for anyway). Removing the ability to skip really sucks but my commute is not long enough to justify paying for Spotify or for the premium Amazon Music thing. I'm using a few limited playlists on Amazon that still allow skipping but may just go back to FM radio. At this point there are very few…

Spotify premium is like what, 3$ per person if you divide by 5? Vote with your wallet folks, don't give EvilCorp one penny and they'll realize.

Re: After price update, Amazon Prime members call Amazon Music “unusable”

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Post by filoleg »

olyjohn wrote: post #28
filoleg wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, it seems to be very regional. Here is my personal experience over the past year. In downtown Seattle/SLU area (aka "Amazon rainforest", due to that whole area having a very heavy concentration of Amazon offices), most packages take around 2 days. In Atlanta area (midtown and closeby sorta-suburban areas like Little Five and Edgewood), most packages take between same-day to 1-2 days (usually a bit less time than…

If you're in Seattle, you're probably getting packages from like Kent or Everett. I don't see how they could afford a warehouse anywhere near the city.

Yep, it is usually Kent, you are entirely correct :)

Re: After price update, Amazon Prime members call Amazon Music “unusable”

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Post by rendaw »

In some insane move, Amazon recently replaced their decade old mp3 buying UI with Amazon Music. In the process, they got rid of the 30s samples. Egregiously, there's now no way to listen to music before you buy it unless you sign up for Amazon Music! You can't even confirm it's the song you think it is!

The icing on the cake is there's a listen button on the album and each track, which when clicked plays a _random unrelated_ song. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in an alternate dimension.

Amazon was the only music store offering some major artist music I could use (not buying a Mac just to buy stuff on iTunes), not sure how I'll get music now.

Re: After price update, Amazon Prime members call Amazon Music “unusable”

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Post by coredog64 »

filoleg wrote: post #33
olyjohn wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're in Seattle, you're probably getting packages from like Kent or Everett. I don't see how they could afford a warehouse anywhere near the city.

Yep, it is usually Kent, you are entirely correct :)

With the price of real estate in Kent I’m shocked that there’s an FC there.

Re: After price update, Amazon Prime members call Amazon Music “unusable”

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Post by runnerup »

rendaw wrote: post #34

In some insane move, Amazon recently replaced their decade old mp3 buying UI with Amazon Music. In the process, they got rid of the 30s samples. Egregiously, there's now no way to listen to music before you buy it unless you sign up for Amazon Music! You can't even confirm it's the song you think it is! The icing on the cake is there's a listen button on the album and each track, which when clicked plays a _random un…

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Re: After price update, Amazon Prime members call Amazon Music “unusable”

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Post by mayankkaizen »

Serious and an honest question.

Does HN crowd in general not resort to pirating music? Obviously piracy is unethical but it is the best way I can enjoy music. No ads. I still have all the songs I had like 20 years back. And many other positives.

Re: After price update, Amazon Prime members call Amazon Music “unusable”

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Post by NERD_ALERT »

rendaw wrote: post #34

In some insane move, Amazon recently replaced their decade old mp3 buying UI with Amazon Music. In the process, they got rid of the 30s samples. Egregiously, there's now no way to listen to music before you buy it unless you sign up for Amazon Music! You can't even confirm it's the song you think it is! The icing on the cake is there's a listen button on the album and each track, which when clicked plays a _random un…

iTunes doesn’t exist anymore because people don’t purchase music this way. For better or for worse, Spotify and Apple Music are how people consume music now.

Re: After price update, Amazon Prime members call Amazon Music “unusable”

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Post by throwaway1851 »

gigel82 wrote: post #10

I was using Amazon Music on my commute. No ads and nice selection (often updated), plus included with Prime (which I'm paying for anyway). Removing the ability to skip really sucks but my commute is not long enough to justify paying for Spotify or for the premium Amazon Music thing. I'm using a few limited playlists on Amazon that still allow skipping but may just go back to FM radio. At this point there are very few…

I don’t even think the shipping benefit is all that great these days. Yes, you can get it fast, but what “it” are you getting? Usually, it’s some random Alibaba rebrand with a name like XXFOOJLI and ten thousand fake reviews.

Re: After price update, Amazon Prime members call Amazon Music “unusable”

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Post by recursv_thnkng »

NERD_ALERT wrote: post #38
rendaw wrote: post #34

In some insane move, Amazon recently replaced their decade old mp3 buying UI with Amazon Music. In the process, they got rid of the 30s samples. Egregiously, there's now no way to listen to music before you buy it unless you sign up for Amazon Music! You can't even confirm it's the song you think it is! The icing on the cake is there's a listen button on the album and each track, which when clicked plays a _random un…

iTunes doesn’t exist anymore because people don’t purchase music this way. For better or for worse, Spotify and Apple Music are how people consume music now.

What do you mean? iTunes still exists. It’s separate from Music but you can still boot up iTunes (pc/MacOS/ iOS) and still search, sample, buy everything as you did before.
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