So, that ramps up the battle quite a bit. Do you want to pay £10/month for music at Itunes or Spotify, or £6/month for music, films and free delivery at Amazon? The ability to download albums and and play them off line is a bit of a boon – can you do that with Itunes? I know you can with Spotify premium.
I’ve got free Spotify, Netflix, and Amazon prime for the delivery mostly. This probably stops me upgrading Spotify or going to the Itunes subscription, even though it has only 1 million tracks which is less than Spotify or Apple music
Price war coming?
I’m interested to see how good the Amazon service is. I signed up for Amazon Prime by mistake and was unable to cancel for the year, so I bought a Fire HD and have enjoyed the quick deliveries. If the music service is good I may well stop my Spotify subscription.
I also signed up to Amazon prime by mistake, but Amazon arguably make it extremely easy for that mistake to happen. I kicked up a stink with their customer service, and they eventually refunded me.
I also signed up to Amazon Prime by mistake the other day. Funny how easy it is to do that….
I got auto-bumped onto Amazon Prime when they first launched the service.
As far as I can tell, they’ve never actually charged me for it – it’s never shown up in any of my bank statements. I’d probably be willing to pay for it anyway.
As I see it (I got caught out too) it was an “opt out or pay” thingey. I complained and got most of my money back. Poor mate that was working in a bank’s call centre at the time, told me they were inundated with people complaining about it.
Getting back on point, a price war would be nice.
I can see the streaming services starting to offer you a free month or two when you try and cancel your subscription.
I am currently listening to Yes – Heaven & Earth right now on the Amazon thingy. Marvellous.
I only took out Prime membership for the special Prime Day offerings. It was also on a reduced rate of £59 for a few days before then. I bought 8 items in the sale, opted for no-rush delivery and was given a £3 digital voucher for each item ordered. I have since returned 2 items at no cost to me. Kerching! I am obviously a bad person.
Heaven & Earth marvellous??
He’s insane.
Is there an App for the Amazon music service?
Yep. Apple and usual outlets. I’m a Prime user and so I have access.
Interestingly it has the Slade back catalogue which is something missing from Spotify.
No SONOS connectivity as yet but early days.
It seems the app is not compatible with my device. Which is? A Fire tablet of course.
I already use the Amazon Music app because it’s an easier way of listening to any auto-rips I may have got than downloading them and chucking them into iTunes. It’s a decent enough interface – and as I’m a Prime user anyway, I’ll be interested to see how good the streaming service is.
Amazon Prime’s TV and movies seems to pale next to Netflix.
Certainly true of TV, but Netflix’s film selection has always been pretty shoddy.
Fair point – I can’t actually remember when I last watched a film on Netflix.
Real steel, last weekend – but mostly TV on Netflix it has to be said.
I watched Admission the other night, under heavy duress, and it made me weep hot, salty tears of anger and frustration.
Is this meant to be a comedy or a drama? How can a film featuring Paul Rudd and Lily Tomlin be so charmless and devoid of amusement? Why – WHY – can Tina Fey not translate her magic to the silver screen, Mean Girls excluded?!
Thank christ I’m seeing the new Mission Impossible on Friday, is all I can say.
There are loads, but you need to be like me and have missed heaps of them.
I watched The Apartment and Margin Call at the weekend. Margin Call is well worth a watch.
Bonus I say. I’m an amazon prime customer, as living in Dubai its one of the ways we can watch decent TV/Films without it costing an arm and a leg. Not worried about a perceived lack of choice on Prime as we only watch a couple of hours a week. Having just signed up for the Apple music free trial last month, I like how that, sort of, integrates and will see how that goes, but will likely save my money and stick with Amazon. I’m a late entrant having never been a spotifier. We will see.
I don’t know about this Amazon music streaming thing……I suppose that if you already have Prime then its a good deal but, having had a quick look at what is (currently) available, I am not overly impressed.
I do wonder though if, in a few months, there will still be so many Music Streaming providers around….Spotify I imagine will be here.Apple too of course but Napster? Deezer? Maybe there will be discounts but is there REALLY demand for so many here in the UK?
I have Prime and have no idea what everyone is talking about but I shall investigate. I just cancelled Spotty Paid thingy because I never used it. I can’t keep up with the music I actually own, never mind a load of stuff on line.
Amazon not available in Oz so that’s out anyway. The whole iMusic/iCloud thing does my head in, with its emphasis on syncing, which is a much overrated pastime, IMHO. Having just discovered the weekly Spotify mixtape ‘curated’ just for me, which is an astonishingly well chosen mixture of the familiar and unfamiliar (even a bit of Beefheart to keep me on my toes), I’ve decided to stick with their paid service, which is where I’ve been for several years anyway. I can’t imagine needing more music than they offer. Phew.
Syncing?
The whole ecosystem thing. I don’t want my iPhone, iPad and Mac Mini to talk to each other all the time. Possibly a bit ungrateful of me, but there it is.
Fair enough. It’s not like it’s intrusive, though – I have some music on my phone, all of it on the iMac, none of it on my iPad. I just turn “show all music” off on the mobile devices.
Amazon not available?
What, you have shops and things?
For some reason the only bit of Amazon that has ‘reached these shores’ (actually not literally) is the Kindle store. Not sure how that happened. We do indeed have shops and things, full of people waiting to serve you with a cheery g’day, although online shopping is probably driving them into the ground.
There is of course Amazon’s Book Depository, which will ship you a book from the UK for nothing. No idea how the economics of that work. Amazon Subprime.