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Amazon Music - Prime

photonic69photonic69 Posts: 2,042
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Not Amazon Music Unlimited.

Well, they've gone and censored censored it right censored up!! You can't listen to an album in the order the tracks are recorded, only in shuffle mode and sometimes they add "random tracks that are like that" into the mix! It's royally censored . The censored censored ! They want you to censored pay for censored Amazon Unlimited! Wankers!

Anyone else noticed this update as of today? Absolute load of bollocks!

Pah!

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  • rjsterryrjsterry Posts: 26,192
    Ah. I wondered why the app icon had changed. Will investigate.
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  • seanoconnseanoconn Posts: 10,769
    Amazon keep reminding me I have an unused benefit, Amazon Music. Is it worthwhile?
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  • photonic69photonic69 Posts: 2,042
    rjsterry said:

    Ah. I wondered why the app icon had changed. Will investigate.

    Don't bother. You'll want to poke some sharp sticks in your eyes if you do.
    seanoconn said:

    Amazon keep reminding me I have an unused benefit, Amazon Music. Is it worthwhile?

    It was. It was really great. It is no longer.

  • morstarmorstar Posts: 6,171
    edited November 2022
    A bit off topic but a similar frustration.

    I use a money app named HyperJar which I have been pretty pleased with. Allows you to split money into lots of separate jars and move it around really easily.

    I have many jars which, until Friday were nice big icons with the name and amount clearly identifiable.

    As of Friday, the icons are smaller and all the info is squished underneath and not at all easy to read. Everything is curtailed e.g. Spe…£50 in small wrapped font.

    I have no idea why people break good apps.
  • pblakeneypblakeney Posts: 24,035
    photonic69 said:

    rjsterry said:

    Ah. I wondered why the app icon had changed. Will investigate.

    Don't bother. You'll want to poke some sharp sticks in your eyes if you do.
    seanoconn said:

    Amazon keep reminding me I have an unused benefit, Amazon Music. Is it worthwhile?

    It was. It was really great. It is no longer.

    Thanks!
    Confirms my decision to delete the email about the unused app without trying it.
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  • oxomanoxoman Posts: 11,629
    Just use splotifly and you you don't inflate amazonia,s ego anymore. Hate A purely because they want to take over everything including space and the universe given half a chance and don't get me going on Mr Tes-slap wanting to own all cars and twatter type apps. Both just to big for there boots.
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  • grenwgrenw Posts: 803
    I think they've changed their 'model'....

    It used to be Prime gave you 20 million (or whatever) songs and and Unlimited gave you 100m.

    Now Prime gives you access to the full 100m library but with constraints. Sounds like the album order is one of them. A bit like Spotify always has been - free is shuffle only from memory.
  • orraloonorraloon Posts: 12,149
    grenw said:

    I think they've changed their 'model'....

    It used to be Prime gave you 20 million (or whatever) songs and and Unlimited gave you 100m.

    Now Prime gives you access to the full 100m library but with constraints. Sounds like the album order is one of them. A bit like Spotify always has been - free is shuffle only from memory.

    Not the way I find Spotify, there is a shuffle option but not mandatory. As aside, seem to get no ads now on free Spotify, can't recall last time. Not that frequent a user but it used to be an irritant years back. Then would have been via iPad app, now usually the Firestick version.
  • ProssPross Posts: 38,825
    By chance, I had an email from them just before reading this yesterday and before that didn't even know I had it available to me so I've never tried it. I guess at least if I do now use it I won't be comparing it to how it was!
  • pangolinpangolin Posts: 5,795
    Prime via an alexa speaker is very annoying. Constant rambles about how many songs are available before it plays what you asked it to.
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  • briantrumpetbriantrumpet Posts: 15,745
    edited November 2022
    As annoying as having a piece of music spread across several 78s? My gran had one of these autochangers...

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  • ddraverddraver Posts: 26,094
    Increasingly finding myself going back to CDs tbh...
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  • photonic69photonic69 Posts: 2,042
    ddraver said:

    Increasingly finding myself going back to CDs tbh...

    Yes, I've been buying a lot of 2nd hand CDs from Music Magpie. This is after hearing them on Amazon Music. It was useful to discover new bands/music of the genres I like. Might have to get a new CD player as mine sometimes skips on the last few tracks.
  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 69,760 Lives Here
    Spotify is great, why not just use that?
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  • morstarmorstar Posts: 6,171
    rick_chasey said:

    Spotify is great, why not just use that?

    Because they dry fist artists?
  • morstarmorstar Posts: 6,171
    On a serious note, I don’t like that the algorithms have a self perpetuating feedback loop of similar stuff.

    I have a preferred genre but will traverse very widely from it in my listening.

    No matter how many outliers I throw in to encourage a broader spread of music, it suggest stuff based on the predominant genre. Or groups all the outliers together. What I would like is a vibrant mix of listening. Seems impossible to get.
  • oxomanoxoman Posts: 11,629
    A lot of my music is off CD and copied onto HD player for me to pick and choose and occasionally I'll download odd bits off Spotify.
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  • pblakeneypblakeney Posts: 24,035
    morstar said:

    On a serious note, I don’t like that the algorithms have a self perpetuating feedback loop of similar stuff.

    ...

    This. I can guarantee to hear certain songs every day as I listen for a fair few hours while working, regardless of which app used. Started my own songs on random but that means not hearing new music.
    Ideal algorithm would be to play similar music but skip frequently played tracks.
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  • laurentianlaurentian Posts: 2,292
    photonic69 said:

    ddraver said:

    Increasingly finding myself going back to CDs tbh...

    Yes, I've been buying a lot of 2nd hand CDs from Music Magpie. This is after hearing them on Amazon Music. It was useful to discover new bands/music of the genres I like. Might have to get a new CD player as mine sometimes skips on the last few tracks.
    The only reason I have Amazon music on my phone is that if you buy a CD from Amazon, you get an "Autorip" for free on to your phone. This feature is not available on all purchases (and obviously not second hand ones).

    Regarding your CD player, I had a problem with mine a couple of years ago. It was not "seeing" the CD when inserted. A bit of research on line and the conclusion was that it needed a new laser unit . Bought one (c.£25 from memory) and replaced the old one through watching a YouTube video. I was surprised that no matter what the make/model of the CD player (from cheap to pretty expensive) the laser unit is the same £25 thing. My CD player is a fairly old Marantz job. Probably worth a bit of a search on line before binning off your old CD player - it was remarkably easy to do.
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  • kingstongrahamkingstongraham Posts: 25,472
    morstar said:

    On a serious note, I don’t like that the algorithms have a self perpetuating feedback loop of similar stuff.

    I have a preferred genre but will traverse very widely from it in my listening.

    No matter how many outliers I throw in to encourage a broader spread of music, it suggest stuff based on the predominant genre. Or groups all the outliers together. What I would like is a vibrant mix of listening. Seems impossible to get.

    I'm finding this - Spotify gives 6 "daily mixes" of stuff, but what that means is I get 6 mixes of things that are very different to each other, but similar genres within the mix.

    Why can't there be a single place with all of them mixed up. Maybe except my "Daily Mix Four" which today for some reason seems to be almost entirely Jazz Emu, Lonely Island and The Muppets.
  • kingstongrahamkingstongraham Posts: 25,472
    That said, if you haven't yet experienced "My Brothe" by Jazz Emu, enjoy.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmss2dJ__cI
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