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This is seriously a usability disaster. I have to go through the normal Amazon store to add music to my prime library? I have to leave the player to find music to listen to? No thank you.
I can't believe they launched something this big with that UI. If they had an app comparable to that of Spotify on mobile and desktop, so many people would have jumped right on it.
The UX for this is very awkward (unless I'm missing something) - the "store" and the "player" are completely disjoint experiences with only a few marketing links between them. You can't actually add new (free) "Prime Music" to your collection from the player - you have to jump to the "store" to discover the music you want and add it to your cloud library. Nor can you play full songs from the "store", even if you have…
It is no better than their Amazon Instant Video. Their video offering is pretty terrible. Takes ages to move between menus. You cannot just continue from where you were previously. It doesn't skip the credits and offer the next episode. The whole thing is painful to use compared to Netflix. Another example. Yesterday I was looking for a TV show I was watching. I went into "Your TV Shows" and it wasn't there. It had b…
Their music offering looks like more of the same. Lower selection, poor discoverability, a second-class UI on PC. I really wish Amazon would stop re-purposing their storefront UI for every product they can, and actually design a decent UI for their various products.
Well this product is dead on arrival http://i.imgur.com/hBVq7pp.png
I just discovered that as well. And it just so happens that 3 of the songs by the artist I wanted were all non-prime. Very lame.
"This free music is lame because it's not the music I wanted for free?"
Do you tell stores their free samples suck because you wanted a free sample of a different product?
I am a USA prime account holder with an account that was renewed in January of this year (2014). I was curious why the amazon prime music page indicated I needed to upgrade my account, so, I clicked 'upgrade for 99 dollars'. It went ahead and renewed my prime account with today's date, and sent me a new welcome email. It's completely unclear if it has consumed my previous subscription with over half a year left. So b…
The UX for this is very awkward (unless I'm missing something) - the "store" and the "player" are completely disjoint experiences with only a few marketing links between them. You can't actually add new (free) "Prime Music" to your collection from the player - you have to jump to the "store" to discover the music you want and add it to your cloud library. Nor can you play full songs from the "store", even if you have…
It is no better than their Amazon Instant Video. Their video offering is pretty terrible. Takes ages to move between menus. You cannot just continue from where you were previously. It doesn't skip the credits and offer the next episode. The whole thing is painful to use compared to Netflix. Another example. Yesterday I was looking for a TV show I was watching. I went into "Your TV Shows" and it wasn't there. It had b…
Prime subscriber here. Cool beans. I found some of my favorites. But I also found a lot of spammy crap. I searched for Smashing Pumpkins, and it's pages of "1979 [A Tribute to the Smashing Pumpkins]" or "Disarm [In The Style Of The Smashing Pumpkins]". It takes some work to figure out, no, they don't actually have them. I'm reminded of Steve Jobs's line with the introduction of the iTMS: "This number [of songs] could…
I'd rather I decide for myself if I like a song or not and not a corporate business decision maker decide for me before I have a chance to hear it.
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> Next episodes don't auto play. There are actually some very strict legal requirements preventing streaming-video services from providing "linear content" (i.e. anything that works like a TV channel.) Anyone that seems to do so (e.g. Netflix) still stops every few episodes to get you to press a button to continue. Happily, this is entirely irrelevant to within-home streaming. Plex can auto-play for as long as you li…
Pretty sure Hulu happily autoplays all day long.
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I just discovered that as well. And it just so happens that 3 of the songs by the artist I wanted were all non-prime. Very lame.
Dead on arrival? How? Why is there the expectation that every song in an album would be free under Prime? "This free music is lame because it's not the music I wanted for free?" Do you tell stores their free samples suck because you wanted a free sample of a different product?
So, for people like me, to try to explain to people like you...
Why is there the expectation that every second in a song would be free under Prime?
In addition to the music that's available via Prime, they have an "auto-rip" feature that automatically adds to your music library any tracks from physical CDs that you've purchased from Amazon in the past. Very nice.
Sometimes the price for the CD's with auto-rip is cheaper than the MP3 only price. Quite strange.
Or thats how I ended up with a frozen CD that cost -$.50
Limited selection like Prime Instant Video, but at least it's available on Android (although the app doesn't seem to support the new service yet and is butt-ugly). On a side note, I don't really get why Amazon is twisting our arms and doesn't offer Instant Video on Android outside of Google TV and Kindle Fire. I care less about their free videos, but I've purchased digital content and I'm not able to watch it on my A…