Amazon Echo Club - Page 61

tubemonkey · 10-12-2016, 07:25 AM

What's new?

Introducing Amazon Music Unlimited

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Amazon Music Unlimited is an ad-free, on-demand music streaming service that makes Alexa even better. Choose from tens of millions of songs and get exclusive features. Just ask.

* Alexa, play the best 80s music.
* Alexa, play the latest Coldplay album.
* Alexa, play the song that goes "Hello from the other side."

To learn about new ways you can ask for music, go to Amazon Music Unlimited for Echo.

To learn more, just ask: “Alexa, tell me more about Amazon Music Unlimited.”

See this post in the Media Deals thread for additional discussion.
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tubemonkey · 10-12-2016, 07:28 AM

Amazon Music Unlimited

FREE -- 30-day Trial

Subscription Plans

Limited Catalog -- 2.2 million songs
Prime Music --> FREE --> Prime only
Full Catalog -- 27.4 million songs
Echo Plan --> $3.99/mo --> single echo device only
Individual --> $7.99/mo | $79/yr ($6.58/mo) --> Prime only
Individual --> $9.99/mo
Family Plan --> $14.99/mo | $149/yr ($12.42/mo) --> Prime only
Family Plan --> $14.99/mo

Amazon Music

Digital Music --> 41.3 million songs --> entire music catalog for sale
Music Unlim ---> 27.4 million songs --> paid subscription users
Prime Music ----> 2.2 million songs --> free for Prime members

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tubemonkey · 10-12-2016, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by booklover6

Echo Music Unlim ---> $4.99/ mo

This interests me greatly. I want to see the available catalog. It may well be worth the monthly price, depends on what they include. My daughter and I use Prime Music a lot.

Amazon just released their Music Unlimited plans. I'm currently listening to a free 30-day trial.

Prime Music has 2 million songs in its catalog and Music Unlimited has tens of millions of songs. Amazon hasn't revealed what they mean by "tens of millions" -- ie, 20 million?, 40 million?

Amazon is now directly competing with the likes of Spotify and Google Play Music and those plans have 30 to 50 million songs in their catalogs, so I'm fairly certain that Amazon has the same.

The Echo Plan is $3.99/mo but is limited to just one Echo device. Additionally, you can't switch back and forth between Echos. It will only play on the Echo you used to sign up on.

If you wish to have the Echo Plan on more than one Echo, you'll need to upgrade to the Individual Plan for $7.99/mo or $79/yr. Then you can play music on up to 10 different devices and download for offline listening on devices capable of doing so.

Remember, with the Echo, Prime, and Individual Plans, you can only stream on one device at a time. To stream simultaneously on multiple devices, you'll need separate paid accounts or the soon to be released Family Plan ($14.99/mo or $149/yr) that will give you 6 separate accounts.

tubemonkey · 10-12-2016, 08:39 AM

After my 30-day trial is over, I'm switching to the $4 Echo Plan. I don't need to play the full catalog on multiple devices, nor do I need the download capability offered in the full plan. For those two features, I'm quite happy with the limited selection offered by the still free Prime Music Plan.

copyrite · 10-12-2016, 09:03 AM

This morning I asked Alexa to play a song and she told me it wasn't available in my library but it was available in Amazon Music Unlimited. Did I want to learn more?

Sorry, not adding yet another monthly fee at this time.

jswinden · 10-12-2016, 10:42 AM

Maybe a good deal for some, but not for me. I don't listen to music all day every day now, nor did I do that when I was a teenager. I'm a casual, occasional listener. I find that I rarely get the message that a song is not available in my music library when listening to Prime Music. To be clear, my library has less than 100 songs in it. I'm just not a music nut like a lot of folks, and never have been. I prefer to tell Echo to play Classic Rock, or whatever genre floats my boat at the moment, and I get a decent selection of songs for FREE. Hardly worth another monthly fee just to get one or two extra songs a day. Perhaps this is because I was a child in the 1960s and a teenager in the 1970s and most of that music is so old that it is available in the Prime Music free catalog. Or maybe I'm just lucky to have most of what I want to hear available for free.

tubemonkey · 10-12-2016, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by jswinden

Or maybe I'm just lucky to have most of what I want to hear available for free.

That ^

Quite a bit of what I listen to from the 60s & 70s is missing in Prime Music. It's worth $4 a month to me to get the missing music.

tubemonkey · 10-12-2016, 11:08 AM

Amazon’s Prime Music library just gained 400,000 new songs overnight

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One great side effect of Amazon’s new Music Unlimited streaming service is that it has considerably increased the number of songs available to Prime members through Amazon Prime Music. Yesterday, there were around 1.8 million songs in the Prime Music library that Prime Members can access for free. Now there are just over 2.2 million songs available in Prime Music. To make Amazon Music Unlimited a reality, Amazon must of made numerous new deals with record labels. It looks like those deals included Prime Music negotiations as well, so if there’s a song you’ve wanted to listen to that hasn’t been in Prime Music, you may want to take a second look.

tubemonkey · 10-12-2016, 11:12 AM

Amazon’s $3.99 Echo-only plan for Amazon Music Unlimited is litterally for a single device

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Amazon Music Unlimited, the new stand-alone music streaming service from Amazon, launched this morning with an enticing $3.99 per month option for Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, and Amazon Tap owners. The catch though is that the $3.99 plan can only be used from a single device. That doesn’t mean a single device at a time, but rather, it literally means only a single Echo, Echo Dot, or Tap can access the Amazon Music Unlimited library.

jswinden · 10-12-2016, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Amazon’s $3.99 Echo-only plan for Amazon Music Unlimited is litterally for a single device

Which makes it totally worthless to me. If it covered all my Amazon devices throughout the house, then maybe. Covering only one is what you expect from Sirius/XM satellite. Pass.

tubemonkey · 10-12-2016, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by jswinden

Which makes it totally worthless to me. If it covered all my Amazon devices throughout the house, then maybe. Covering only one is what you expect from Sirius/XM satellite. Pass.

You'd need to get the Individual plan to do that -- $8/mo for Prime members and $10/mo for non-Prime customers. And even then, all of these plans would still have the same limitation as the free Prime Music plan -- only one device can stream at a time.

jswinden · 10-12-2016, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

You'd need to get the Individual plan to do that -- $8/mo for Prime members and $10/mo for non-Prime customers. And even then, all of these plans would still have the same limitation as the free Prime Music plan -- only one device can stream at a time.

Like I said above, a total waste of money in my case. Of course I suspect that the pay out the a$$ plans will likely mean fewer free songs in the long run. The Prime Video free offerings are few and far between, and rarely top quality programming. I fully expect that Prime Music will eventually follow suite in yet another great "bait and switch" operation. Meh!

tubemonkey · 10-12-2016, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by jswinden

Like I said above, a total waste of money in my case. Of course I suspect that the pay out the a$$ plans will likely mean fewer free songs in the long run. The Prime Video free offerings are few and far between, and rarely top quality programming. I fully expect that Prime Music will eventually follow suite in yet another great "bait and switch" operation. Meh!

Actually, Amazon added some 400,000 new songs to the free Prime Music catalog today. Yesterday there were 1.8 million songs in the catalog and today there are 2.2 million songs.

wodin · 10-12-2016, 03:16 PM

A couple of millions of songs is enough for me, I rarely get a song not available message, and the few times I do would make those one or two per month very expensive songs indeed.

tubemonkey · 10-12-2016, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by wodin

A couple of millions of songs is enough for me, I rarely get a song not available message, and the few times I do would make those one or two per month very expensive songs indeed.

Unfortunately for me, I get those messages quite frequently.

10-12-2016, 07:28 AM	#902
tubemonkey monkey on the fringe Posts: 45,770 Karma: 158733736 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Seattle Metro Device: Moto E6, Echo Show	Amazon Music Unlimited FREE -- 30-day Trial Subscription Plans Limited Catalog -- 2.2 million songs Prime Music --> FREE --> Prime only Full Catalog -- 27.4 million songs Echo Plan --> $3.99/mo --> single echo device only Individual --> $7.99/mo \| $79/yr ($6.58/mo) --> Prime only Individual --> $9.99/mo Family Plan --> $14.99/mo \| $149/yr ($12.42/mo) --> Prime only Family Plan --> $14.99/mo Amazon Music Digital Music --> 41.3 million songs --> entire music catalog for sale Music Unlim ---> 27.4 million songs --> paid subscription users Prime Music ----> 2.2 million songs --> free for Prime members . Last edited by tubemonkey; 11-19-2016 at 04:08 PM.

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10-12-2016, 08:39 AM	#904
tubemonkey monkey on the fringe Posts: 45,770 Karma: 158733736 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Seattle Metro Device: Moto E6, Echo Show	After my 30-day trial is over, I'm switching to the $4 Echo Plan. I don't need to play the full catalog on multiple devices, nor do I need the download capability offered in the full plan. For those two features, I'm quite happy with the limited selection offered by the still free Prime Music Plan.

10-12-2016, 09:03 AM	#905
copyrite Wizard Posts: 1,841 Karma: 4985051 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Maryland Device: Kindle	This morning I asked Alexa to play a song and she told me it wasn't available in my library but it was available in Amazon Music Unlimited. Did I want to learn more? Sorry, not adding yet another monthly fee at this time.

10-12-2016, 10:42 AM	#906
jswinden Nameless Being	Maybe a good deal for some, but not for me. I don't listen to music all day every day now, nor did I do that when I was a teenager. I'm a casual, occasional listener. I find that I rarely get the message that a song is not available in my music library when listening to Prime Music. To be clear, my library has less than 100 songs in it. I'm just not a music nut like a lot of folks, and never have been. I prefer to tell Echo to play Classic Rock, or whatever genre floats my boat at the moment, and I get a decent selection of songs for FREE. Hardly worth another monthly fee just to get one or two extra songs a day. Perhaps this is because I was a child in the 1960s and a teenager in the 1970s and most of that music is so old that it is available in the Prime Music free catalog. Or maybe I'm just lucky to have most of what I want to hear available for free.

10-12-2016, 03:16 PM	#914
wodin Illiterate Posts: 10,279 Karma: 37848716 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: The Sandwich Isles Device: Samsung Galaxy S10+, Microsoft Surface Pro	A couple of millions of songs is enough for me, I rarely get a song not available message, and the few times I do would make those one or two per month very expensive songs indeed.