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

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Post by recursv_thnkng »

ozzythecat wrote: post #16

Having worked at Amazon for well over a decade, here’s more or less what happened: 1. Product, in alignment with directors and VPs, have an overarching 3-5 year vision document 2. The document talks about “customer obsession” and a 2025 vision for “delighting customers” 3. Document has mostly fluff ideas, written by some MBA grad, on an H1B visa, who is feeling pressure to deliver a grand vision. Both to get promoted…

Spot on. The bigger question is how you lasted a decade? A year of that of that promo and metrics driven culture churn was enough for me.

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Post by silisili »

andrewnicolalde wrote: post #3
PaulHoule wrote: post #2

Now if they can just bring back two day shipping Prime might be worthwhile.

Did Amazon actually drop this? I haven’t used prime in a very long time but this was pretty much the only reason I bothered.

In some places. It started during the 'covid worker shortage' and never came back.

Where I live now, Prime shipping is usually 4 days, sometimes longer.

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Post by usednet »

mayankkaizen wrote: post #37

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.

No. I have a 40TB home server running Plex, Nextcloud, etc. but I can’t match the convenience of Spotify.

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Post by guitarbill »

mayankkaizen wrote: post #37

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.

Piracy's gotten harder, or maybe I just have less time to find quality sources. And curating a library isn't something everybody enjoys, either.

I would settle for being able to strip DRM simply and quickly from media I could "buy".

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Post by morgannewman »

Gigachad wrote: post #30
xg15 wrote: post #11

So to get this right, am Amazon Prime membership will get you basically Spotify's free tier, while you need Prime + additional $9 a month to get service equivalent to Spotify Premium?

For all the complaining about Spotify in this website, they are still by far the best music streaming service.

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Post by jeegsy »

themoonisachees wrote: post #15

Installing YouTube vanced (and yt music vanced) on my phone and using YouTube music in the browser with ublock origin has been free and fantastic user experience (browsers now support dbus commands, so media keys work without needing to install the app on desktop). Highly recommend.

what is "vanced"?

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Post by filoleg »

coredog64 wrote: post #35
filoleg wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Just a guess - residential real estate pricing and commercial/industrial real estate pricing are not following the same trends.

The reason residential real estate keeps going up is partially due to zoning laws being out of wack on west coast. So just because the price of residential real estate in Kent keeps getting crazier, that doesn't mean the industrial one does as much.

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Post by raffraffraff »

mayankkaizen wrote: post #37

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.

I still buy music on Bandcamp or 7digital. I've been accumulating my collection for over 20 years ago it's huge. I have it in pCloud, but there's also a copy on all of my laptops and NAS. I play music locally with MusicBee, and on the go I just use a 256gb sdcard and a decent app. If I'm in someone else's house I can use the pCloud player but it's shit. I have thought about using Astiga to play my pCloud collection on the go but so far the sdcard + app works well.

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

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Post by GordonS »

They've made Amazon Prime Music totally unusable for me.

All my carefully curated playlists are now gone - user playlists are no longer a feature. Instead, you play a track, and then Prime selects every subsequent track based on "similarity". Don't like a track? Ah, well, there is a "skip limit", so you can only skip tracks so many times per month?!?

Who the hell thought of a skip limit?!

I haven't used it since. They've completely destroyed a really good Prime benefit. After this, I'd rather pay more for Spotify than pay for the paid Amazon Music tier :-/

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