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The article compares Amazon Prime music with Spotify... I'm a prime member and enjoy many of the advantages it comes with, but Prime Music is not one of them. I

by ibdf 9y ago

The article compares Amazon Prime music with Spotify... I'm a prime member and enjoy many of the advantages it comes with, but Prime Music is not one of them. It's horrible! A few months ago I thought I would give it a try and only use Prime Music because... why pay for two services? After about one month of use, I went back to spotify. The prime player UI is no good, the music selection is horrible, the music recommendation service never recommended anything new. Finding new music is hard, finding less known bands is very hard. I pay for the Spotify family plan and it has been a great experience. I will continue to use prime for shipping, storage, and shows. But for music, so far, Spotify is the only service that checks all the marks.

mattmanser 9y ago
My friend got an echo recently, it was almost funny how many songs it would say "playing a sample of X song" when we were throwing songs at it last Friday. That is after we'd repeated the song title/artist to it over and over and it eventually understood us.
tinyhouse 9y ago
The prime music selection is actually not bad. I use it with Alexa and many songs are included. Every once in a while it tells me I need Unlimited subscription to play a song, but it's good enough so I don't bother with Spotify or Amazon Unlimited. My use case is different since I don't use my phone to play music.
gnud 9y ago
I continue to pay for spotify, and I'm a semi-happy user. But I would pay double for better search/metadata and none of the idiotic suggestions.
- ORioN63 9y ago
  I find good music on `Discover Weekly`. Why are suggestions idiotic?
  - ibdf 9y ago
    Me too. I actually look forward to a new list each week. I have found so many songs there I had never heard of.
- solarkraft 9y ago
  Yes, some of the sorting is inconvenient. Do they even have info on the release year when a song is playing? They could also expand the social features.
aidenn0 9y ago
After reading so many good things about spotify, I gave it a spin for the first time this past week. It actually is the best music streaming service I've used before, but I'm still not going to subscribe. New albums on CD are nearly universally under $10 now, and used CDs are even cheaper, so the price of Spotify is more than an album per month. That's a very steep price, and ultimately I think I'm happier buying 15 CDs per year than paying Spotify's subscription fees. I don't see such high royalties are sustainable if Spotify can't be profitable under them.
- bpicolo 9y ago
  The average music consumption case looks a lot different than 15 CDs per year. I've listened to hundreds of different artists this week and I consider myself a pretty light music consumer.
- pbreit 9y ago
  I’m shocked that people consider 1 CD per month to be expensive for access to millions of albums.
  - ydt 9y ago
    Not to mention I find Spotify's discover weekly feature to be worth at least 50% of it's monthly cost. Every week it generates a 30-song playlist tailored to my tastes and I end up saving probably 10 of those songs on average to my collection. I find it to be really well done.
    - aidenn0 9y ago
      Okay everybody has raved about discover weekly; I've only had 2 of them now, but have yet to hear a track I don't already know, much less an artist. I mean I enjoyed them but it hasn't lived up to its name of "discover" yet; it's so far been popular tracks of fairly well known artists. Quickly browsing through the current list, about half of them are songs I've heard on the radio in the past month.
- blahman2000 9y ago
dkrich 9y ago
I feel the same applies to Prime Video. Horrible, horrible UI and user experience to find programs and then stream them. This is no small thing, either, because the ease of use of Netflix I believe is probably the single biggest reason I use the service, even more than the quality of programming which I believe to be more of a commodity by the day.

by ibdf 9y ago

mattmanser 9y ago

My friend got an echo recently, it was almost funny how many songs it would say "playing a sample of X song" when we were throwing songs at it last Friday. That is after we'd repeated the song title/artist to it over and over and it eventually understood us.

tinyhouse 9y ago

The prime music selection is actually not bad. I use it with Alexa and many songs are included. Every once in a while it tells me I need Unlimited subscription to play a song, but it's good enough so I don't bother with Spotify or Amazon Unlimited. My use case is different since I don't use my phone to play music.

gnud 9y ago

I continue to pay for spotify, and I'm a semi-happy user. But I would pay double for better search/metadata and none of the idiotic suggestions.

ORioN63 9y ago
I find good music on `Discover Weekly`. Why are suggestions idiotic?
- ibdf 9y ago
  Me too. I actually look forward to a new list each week. I have found so many songs there I had never heard of.
solarkraft 9y ago
Yes, some of the sorting is inconvenient. Do they even have info on the release year when a song is playing? They could also expand the social features.

aidenn0 9y ago

After reading so many good things about spotify, I gave it a spin for the first time this past week. It actually is the best music streaming service I've used before, but I'm still not going to subscribe. New albums on CD are nearly universally under $10 now, and used CDs are even cheaper, so the price of Spotify is more than an album per month. That's a very steep price, and ultimately I think I'm happier buying 15 CDs per year than paying Spotify's subscription fees. I don't see such high royalties are sustainable if Spotify can't be profitable under them.

bpicolo 9y ago
The average music consumption case looks a lot different than 15 CDs per year. I've listened to hundreds of different artists this week and I consider myself a pretty light music consumer.
pbreit 9y ago
I’m shocked that people consider 1 CD per month to be expensive for access to millions of albums.
- ydt 9y ago
  Not to mention I find Spotify's discover weekly feature to be worth at least 50% of it's monthly cost. Every week it generates a 30-song playlist tailored to my tastes and I end up saving probably 10 of those songs on average to my collection. I find it to be really well done.
  - aidenn0 9y ago
    Okay everybody has raved about discover weekly; I've only had 2 of them now, but have yet to hear a track I don't already know, much less an artist. I mean I enjoyed them but it hasn't lived up to its name of "discover" yet; it's so far been popular tracks of fairly well known artists. Quickly browsing through the current list, about half of them are songs I've heard on the radio in the past month.
blahman2000 9y ago

dkrich 9y ago

I feel the same applies to Prime Video. Horrible, horrible UI and user experience to find programs and then stream them. This is no small thing, either, because the ease of use of Netflix I believe is probably the single biggest reason I use the service, even more than the quality of programming which I believe to be more of a commodity by the day.