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Re: Amazon Prime Music

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Post by kolev »

derefr wrote: post #52
clarkm wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, DigitalOcean and Linode are great if you just wanna run some servers. But AWS is much, much more than that.

It is; I just spent the last two weeks putting together a very handsome CloudFormation template that can attest to that. I'm almost considering creating a custom CF resource provider to let me spawn DigitalOcean droplets, though. (And to let me use CloudFlare CDN distributions instead of CloudFront ones. Amazon need to either finish CloudFront, or kill it; this purgatorial state where it works but it takes 30 minutes…

I love CloudFormation, but, unfortunately, it's much neglected, doesn't support latest features, and is completely missing major services. The language is so primitive, I had to write custom extensions that compiles to their format. Another rarely used, but very power service is SWF - I bet CF is built entirely on top of it.

Re: Amazon Prime Music

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Post by antimagic »

bambax wrote: post #39
L_Rahman wrote: post #13

1. Given my listening habits, the library feels limited. Tried searches for the three albums I listened to the most this month ( http://www.last.fm/user/labibrahman/charts ): Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso Chet Faker - Built on Glass Tycho - Awake None are available for streaming. For a standalone service, this would be damning. As one of the perks offered with Prime this has the potential to become a compelling part of t…

1 million songs don't sound like a lot; the total number of original songs is something around 20 millions, so 1M Besides, how do they decide what's free as prime and what isn't? My songs aren't free to stream for example http://www.amazon.com/Bambax/dp/B00KB5NT6G/ but I wouldn't mind if they were; how do I opt in? Edit: not 0.5 but 5%!

Where did you get the 20 million figure from? It seems very low. I mean, there are millions of apps on the Apple AppStore. Surely, after decades of creation, there must be tens of millions of albums, and an order of magnitude more songs?

Re: Amazon Prime Music

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Post by psychometry »

Isn't anyone interested in owning their music anymore? Have we all become such casual consumers of music that the concept of building a permanent library of music they like is unnecessary?

I will never understand the appeal of subscription music services.

Re: Amazon Prime Music

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Post by swombat »

psychometry wrote: post #63

Isn't anyone interested in owning their music anymore? Have we all become such casual consumers of music that the concept of building a permanent library of music they like is unnecessary? I will never understand the appeal of subscription music services.

You're not alone. My blood congeals at the idea that access to the music I love is somehow restricted by a third party with a different agenda to mine. I have zero interest in a third party streaming service. Now, if I could install my very own self-hosted Spotify-alike, stick all my music on there, and stream it to my devices with a smooth wireless connection that works even when I'm in tunnels, then you've got me as a streaming music customer.

Re: Amazon Prime Music

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Post by __david__ »

andrewguenther wrote: post #12

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.

Their iOS app seems to be a much better experience than the web site, where I kept getting accidentally shunted to the "digital music" department where the prime music wasn't highlighted.

Re: Amazon Prime Music

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Post by Steko »

bambax wrote: post #39
L_Rahman wrote: post #13

1. Given my listening habits, the library feels limited. Tried searches for the three albums I listened to the most this month ( http://www.last.fm/user/labibrahman/charts ): Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso Chet Faker - Built on Glass Tycho - Awake None are available for streaming. For a standalone service, this would be damning. As one of the perks offered with Prime this has the potential to become a compelling part of t…

1 million songs don't sound like a lot; the total number of original songs is something around 20 millions, so 1M Besides, how do they decide what's free as prime and what isn't? My songs aren't free to stream for example http://www.amazon.com/Bambax/dp/B00KB5NT6G/ but I wouldn't mind if they were; how do I opt in? Edit: not 0.5 but 5%!

18 million on Spotify/Rdio (5 months ago). "Over 37 million" on the itunes store (per apple's website).

Re: Amazon Prime Music

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Post by steelcm »

swombat wrote: post #64
psychometry wrote: post #63

Isn't anyone interested in owning their music anymore? Have we all become such casual consumers of music that the concept of building a permanent library of music they like is unnecessary? I will never understand the appeal of subscription music services.

You're not alone. My blood congeals at the idea that access to the music I love is somehow restricted by a third party with a different agenda to mine. I have zero interest in a third party streaming service. Now, if I could install my very own self-hosted Spotify-alike, stick all my music on there, and stream it to my devices with a smooth wireless connection that works even when I'm in tunnels, then you've got me a…

I'm the complete opposite. I'm a bit of a tinkerer, so my hardware and OS are transient (flash a new build every 3 months). Instead of migrating data, my habits have instead slowly evolved to using SAAS. Don't get me wrong, I have a NAS drive somewhere with a load of music/movies on, but I just don't touch it anymore. It's easier to open up a browser and sign-in to grooveshark or google play.

Re: Amazon Prime Music

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Post by Semaphor »

chc wrote: post #49
quotient wrote: post #23

Wow. This is outstanding. Amazon is solidly developing a one-stop centralized base of entertainment. Even more enticing is that it's free with prime, and even if you don't have prime, it's worth getting prime for: a small fee for a year's access to most music/films you could want. And then you have prime, which makes it much more enticing to buy products on Amazon (due to cheaper, faster delivery). Smart. (I am aware…

Do you really think so? I find Amazon Instant Video to be a distant also-ran to Netflix, and this music service is vastly inferior to literally every other one I have tried.

Most of the time I want to watch something, it's on Amazon, not on Netflix. Which is a shame since their video player is vastly inferior.

Re: Amazon Prime Music

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Post by Semaphor »

Can't use it as Amazon knows about my German account. Weird that it isn't a problem for Instant Video.

But I guess my next prime subscription will be on a new account that is only connected to the US. Maybe it will finally allow me to buy TV shows as well.

Re: Amazon Prime Music

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Post by theplaz »

Not sure why I have to "add" to listen to Prime songs. Can't I play the full song before adding it to my library? I want to be careful what I add - it's kinda like a bookmark. I should be able to try it first.
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