So, I’m doing some research for a project in college and I am focusing on amazon music.

• amazon music had a big redesign in 2019 – users have mixed opinions

• amazon music has around 100 million songs and 5 million podcasts to listen to, amazon music live events, exclusive podcasts, desktop and mobile apps, easily connects to devices, pretty similar subscription plans to other music streaming apps

And I’m wondering…

• what is your opinion on amazon music?

• would you say amazon music is “cool” or “trendy” or rather something for a more mature audience?

• how do you like the current design?

• what music streaming platforms are you using if not amazon music?

thanks in advance!

  • neliste@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    It’s fine.
    Recommendation tends to be pretty consistent too.

    But in the end using YT music, because I have YT prem.
    Also the ability to switch account (channel) is ultra nice, so that I can put hard barrier on the genre I want to listen / recommend.

  • RaggaDruida@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    I honestly discarded amazon (and apple) as possibilities for my streaming service of choice due to their straight out evil business practices as a company.

    The smaller players (Qobuz, Tidal) offered the same sound quality, music collections, etc. without the association with an evil corporation.

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    10 months ago

    Its buggy as fuck and ive given up hope they will ever fix it. I still pay for amazon music unlimited, but it’s only because I’ve spent so many years building my playlists and I’m too lazy to try and export them to a fully functional service. I also use Qobuz and Tidal occasionally. But my thoughts on amazon music are that they have the same philosophy as they do on their Amazon Prime video apps. That app is also dog shit when you compare it to others, but Amazon don’t give a fuck about making it better, coz why should they?

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    10 months ago

    UI is the worst part of it. The worst part is that clicking on an artist in library won’t take you to the songs you saved from that artist, it’ll take you to the artist page which actually wasn’t the case before. It should be the other way around, display saved songs, give option to go to artist like it was before.

    Downloads can be a bit buggy sometimes as well.

    Honestly everything about it besides that is more or less fine. I just wish Spotify had lossless.

  • PopcornIsDaBest@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    i used it for a bit, it was ok but the library was probably the worst of all the streaming services i used so far, i don’t remember it being too buggy or at least tidal levels of buggy

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    10 months ago

    The search function is not good, sometimes you have to search by song name rather than artist name to get the right results. Very weird.

    The library is vast and the price is good.

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    10 months ago

    It’s fine but buggy like other users said. I only use it because it is included with Amazon Prime. Although the version you get with prime is severely gimped and I haven’t found a way to select individual songs I want to play. It is constantly on shuffle mode. You need to pay extra for Unlimited. At that point just pay for Apple Music or Spotify.

    There are plenty of good songs on Amazon Music, but if I had to choose, Apple Music is my favorite if you have an iPhone.

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    10 months ago

    Basically rehashing what others have said: sound quality is meh, catalog is good, it’s cheap, but software sucks.

    Qobuz sounds better but catalog sucks. Tidal sound quality is kind of all over the place IME but catalog is good.

    Using Amazon until subscription runs out, then will consider moving to Qobuz.

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    10 months ago

    Buggy awful experience. Couldn’t choose individual tracks from a new album the other day, had to sit through it or select the one single from the album and skip back or forward from there. The phone lock screen display also changes randomly. Sometimes it has the skip back/forward buttons, sometimes it doesn’t. It makes no sense and is not worth the hassle. Use literally any other service.

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    10 months ago

    Not sure if this is helpful but you might want to write something about the company behind it. I for my part will not use ANY products by amazone. Fuck them.

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      10 months ago

      thanks for the reply! very helpful insight, I have also noticed the image plays an important role too – definitely will mention this part

  • GZoST@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    amazon music has an interface that was designed by people who hate its customers. It appears to be tested by monkeys. Spotfy has its issues, but at least some thought went into the interface. Still tested by monkeys, though.