Amazon Music Unlimited is Getting Its First-Ever Price Hike

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• Cardch

  07 April, 2022 - 2:50 am

  <p>They are pretty big rises….but hard to argue given it’s the first rise since the service began. Still pretty good value compared to buying CD’s. Maybe they could invest some of the increase in improving the app interface</p>

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• harmjr

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  07 April, 2022 - 8:23 am

  <p>I have to say I love Amazon Music Unlimited. I do have the 7.99 plan. Even consider a family plan too. </p><p><br></p><p>Now my complaints.</p><ol><li>No more listening on multiple devices at the same time even if its your purchased music. Yes I do still buy mp3s.</li><li>Car mode sucks! I mean really they don’t give two blanks about it. </li></ol>

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• cmucodemonkey

  07 April, 2022 - 12:14 pm

  <p>There is no shame in buying MP3’s! I still buy my music in MP3 format from Amazon and back it up to OneDrive. I don’t buy music frequently enough to surpass the cost of a streaming service.</p>

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• david.thunderbird

  08 April, 2022 - 11:23 am

  <p>Not to mention the sloppy browser application of Alexa, music-movies-videos crammed all together in one blob with no search.</p>

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• bschnatt

  07 April, 2022 - 8:41 am

  <p>I’m on Amazon Music right now to save money (and I’ve tried it before), but this will be the last time. They refuse to fix their PC app situation (you *still* can’t redirect music to Echoes or control them), when you ask for "artist X", they just keep playing the same tired playlist, over and over, and when you ask for "artist Y radio", they often play screwy music that doesn’t really fit. Regarding the latter, I recently asked for Elmer Bernstein, and they mostly played goofy TV show jingles (if I remember correctly).</p><p><br></p><p>Spotify is the champ when it comes to Amazon device integration (which is ironic), and their curation is so much better, it’s worth the extra money. Amazon doesn’t seem to give a rat’s ass about the problems – they’re more fixated on sending billionaires to space</p>

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• darkgrayknight

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  07 April, 2022 - 10:58 am

  <p>Spotify really is pretty great. It is available on pretty much everything and has a very large collection of artists, music, etc. Amazon integration is great, as well as: Android Auto, Waze, Xbox, PC, etc. I can control any of those from the app on my phone — or via the integration (and back and forth).</p>

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• wright_is

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  08 April, 2022 - 3:20 am

  <p>I tried the Prime Music, but the UI was not straight forward and 4 from the first 5 tracks I tried to play weren’t available – nothing exotic, all standard heavy metal from the 80s.</p><p><br></p><p>Spotify wasn’t much better. The UI was confusing and non-obvious. </p><p><br></p><p>I’m currently using Apple Music and it is better than the other 2, but I can’t say I’m really happy with it. But at least if I select an album to play, it plays the album and doesn’t throw in random, unrelated songs after a couple of tracks…</p><p><br></p><p>iTunes and the Music app on Windows Phone were much simpler to use.</p>

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