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Originally Posted by daffy4u
I opted to remove my music and move it to Google for a couple of reasons.
1 - I'm not a fan of music streaming. I don't like to use up my data bandwidth [when not at home] for music streaming. I really only used the Cloud Player for storage. I have enough room on the majority of my devices to store the music locally.
2 - I really think that Prime members should not have to pay the $25. It should be included for free or at a greatly reduced price [$5-10/yr]
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You don't have to stream music to listen to it. I use the Cloud Player for storage too. I can download my music to my device at anytime using the Amazon MP3 app. You just long press on the song and choose download. You can do this for entire playlists or albums too. You can also download from your PC as well.
I stop streaming when I saw after listening to 4 songs I had used 130MB.
I've never used more then 800MB a month now it's way higher with the new matching so no more streaming if I can help it. So I agree on bandwidth problems with streaming if you're on a data plan.
Amazon downloads the prev/next songs as well as the one you are listening to at the same time. If you ever wondered why you don't have buffering problems this is why. It's good for continuous play not so good for data plans.
Plus if you try to upload your music at 128 or 192 bitrate and Amazon now matches it with 256-320 then it changes from a 3-5MB to 7-10MB per song. Not all songs are matched but you have no idea what is matched and what is uploaded.
The Prime thing I think will be added later down the road.
I also discovered while testing this to see where my bandwidth was going if you use the App store and there is an update for the app and you don't upgrade it redownloads itself each time it puts a notification on the notification bar.
I prefer an old unbloated version. The new app store app is too big for my phone.