Tech IndustryNov 3, 2022

Amazon is killing Spotify or other music streaming platform

Now Amazon prime included Amazon music (ad-free)

Meta zuckboat Nov 3, 2022

That's probably the goal. Investor money os tight, now, so Amazon might as well squeeze Spotify out of the market.

Amazon XAMAZON456 Nov 3, 2022

Nice. Just cancelled my yt premium. This will come in handy

Google yilongmaa Nov 3, 2022

Lol, how is YT premium equal to just music on prime ? U were using YT premium just for music ? That's just plain dumb

OpenDoor 시발 Nov 3, 2022

yt premium gives u yt music too

Nexient dqwjqr Nov 3, 2022

What’s the name of the music app? Amazon music?

Amazon gavaie Nov 3, 2022

Lol it's killing nothing. Only works on shuffle. Enjoy listening to songs you hate

Salesforce 74w42264 Nov 3, 2022

This is true. The experience is actually worse now than it was 2 days ago. And it's not configurable. You can't even replay, or ask it to play the last song anymore. You can no longer ask for just a single song, it'll always play a stream now. And you can't restrict it to only a specific artist anymore - it'll only do "songs similar to this". The whole thing is much worse than it was. It also now gives a 30 sec monologue about how you should buy Amazon Music, because then you get back the features you used to have. And it opens a prompt to try to get you to say yes/no verbally to enroll in it. If you sneeze or something at that time, good luck, because it'll probably sign you up. Even silence isn't acceptable to it, and it'll reprompt you until it hears a sound from you

BlackRock blk01 OP Nov 3, 2022

It’s for ordinary people who like to create their own playlists(not worrying about shuffles) . Ad-free is big bonus (Spotify free version annoying with Ad).

Verizon OU812IC Nov 3, 2022

I'd use Amazon Music if it actually worked with Android Auto. If I ask Android Auto to play a specific song on Amazon Music, I get some random song, not what I wanted. For example, I'll ask for 'Let It Go' from Frozen. It'll play 'I'm still standing' by Elton John. At least Spotify actually plays what I want it to play.

Redfin Sxbw36 Nov 3, 2022

Amazon music is pretty shitty I wouldn't worry about it, literally lost all my music going to YouTube music and dont regret it at all

Upstart uforeal Nov 3, 2022

‘Amazon music unlimited’ - without the shuffle version is a paid service for 10.99$. No thanks, I’m good with Spotify 😒

Robinhood jduaioei Nov 3, 2022

That sucks. So it’s like free Spotify without ads?

Upstart uforeal Nov 3, 2022

No comparison with Spotify, this one sucks big time, both collection wise and UI wise.

Zoho Zoho121 Nov 3, 2022

It's already free with prime in India. Anyway prime music UI and search is pretty bad

Amazon scubadiv3r Nov 3, 2022

Havent looked into it yet but considering it’s an Amazon product, UX is probably shit

Amazon amazoomer Nov 3, 2022

I work for amazon music and can confirm the ux is shit.

Teladoc Health GpMipE Nov 3, 2022

Only shuffle play “mixed with similar songs” or, here’s some extra annoying garbage to make you consider paying anyway, but hey, “Ad free!*”