Amazon Music

[jsgolfer]

Anyone else using Amazon Music?

 I've had Amazon Prime for years and never really thought about using their music streaming service, but I just started using this within the last couple of weeks and I went from 100 songs on my phone to over a 1,000 I can stream.  Pretty cool, I'm sure I could've probably done it through ITunes, but the free songs for Prime members is also a nice benefit.

[nevets88]

On 6/23/2016 at 9:08 AM, jsgolfer said:

Anyone else using Amazon Music?

 I've had Amazon Prime for years and never really thought about using their music streaming service, but I just started using this within the last couple of weeks and I went from 100 songs on my phone to over a 1,000 I can stream.  Pretty cool, I'm sure I could've probably done it through ITunes, but the free songs for Prime members is also a nice benefit.

The selection isn't Spotify or similar, but it's not bad as an add-on to Prime. I use it to download songs for offline listening and new artist discovery, it does have a somewhat decent selection of recent artists. 

Prime also has photo/video storage - I use it to stream instruction vids I've saved. Plus the one free book a month from the limited lending library.

Probably missing other benefits, not sure if this is related to Prime, but recently, all of a sudden, got like a whole bunch of points from my Amex card somehow, which was basically $250 of free money for spending on Amazon.

Oh, there's the save for later articles you want to read on your Kindle.

[DrvFrShow]

Streaming music services pay the artists practically nothing. It is essentially legal pirating. Here's a chart from 2015 showing the number of plays required to make minimum wage.

Zoe Keating on Streaming Music.

 

[newtogolf]

1 hour ago, DrvFrShow said:

Streaming music services pay the artists practically nothing. It is essentially legal pirating. Here's a chart from 2015 showing the number of plays required to make minimum wage.

Zoe Keating on Streaming Music.

 

Artists need exposure, so while streaming music isn't going to make them rich, it is a way to gain new fans who hopefully will go out and buy their music and go to their concerts.  

[iacas]

6 hours ago, DrvFrShow said:

Streaming music services pay the artists practically nothing. It is essentially legal pirating. Here's a chart from 2015 showing the number of plays required to make minimum wage.

And how much does an artist make when their song is played on the radio?

Not much. I've heard 12 cents, and the artist doesn't see the bulk of that… and that's for thousands of listeners.

[billchao]

6 hours ago, DrvFrShow said:

Streaming music services pay the artists practically nothing. It is essentially legal pirating. Here's a chart from 2015 showing the number of plays required to make minimum wage.

Zoe Keating on Streaming Music.

 

It's legal, it isn't Napster. I'm not going to lose sleep if Britney Spears has to sell her Gulfstream 4 for a Gulfstream 3 

@nevets88 mentioned this last time we met up, but I haven't checked it out yet. Streaming uses so much data and the only time I need it is when I'm on the road, so I'm still an FM guy.

[boogielicious]

11 hours ago, iacas said:

And how much does an artist make when their song is played on the radio?

Not much. I've heard 12 cents, and the artist doesn't see the bulk of that… and that's for thousands of listeners.

They are both covered under the same systems for collecting royalties, i.e., BMI, ASCAP, etc. 

[nevets88]

The Amazon app has great offline features and it's easy to use compared to most music apps, where sometimes the offline option can be hard to use and wieldy. It even has an offline discovery option. The selection is weird. It'll have one album/CD/whatthehelldoyoucallitnowadays from an artist or most of the older ones.

The streaming controversy is off topic, a rathole. 

It's the music industry's fault the musicians get so little for streaming, not because of Napster and the like. Pay more for streaming and the money will line the pockets of music execs. It sucks for the musicians, I'd like a larger portion to go to them, but there's nothing I can do about it other than attend their live events or similar. 

 

[Braivo]

I enjoy Amazon Music as a decent side benefit to Prime. I would get Prime anyway and there's enough selection on Amazon Music that I don't need to pay for Spotify or Apple Music. 

[Dave2512]

Prefer Apple music and I dropped Prime. Storage is the issue I am constantly deleting artists from my library to add something but I use it a lot, every night I listen to music on my deck and have a drink or two before bed.