This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. The Verge: Steve Boom is the VP of Amazon Music, and he has a great name for the music business. He’s on the show because Amazon just announced that it is upgrading the music service that Prime members get as part of their subscription. Starting today, one of the benefits for Amazon Prime members is that you now get access to the entire Amazon Music catalog, about 100 million songs, to play in shuffle mode. That service used to only contain 2 million songs. more Not all embedded content is displayed here. You can view the original to see embedded videos, tweets, etc.
Double check if you are being charged for it though. They lie and say music is included with prime but it’s not. I was charged monthly for it and called them out and they only reimbursed me for 3 of the 7 months they did that.
As a Prime user, so did I. I never bothered with Amazon Music because I had that sweet, sweet Spotify student discount.
Cool. Pay all that money a year for Prime just to get what's basically the equivalent of the free version of Spotify.
I think I paid 99 cents a month while my student membership worked and now I pay $5.26 a month which was already a steal. So getting it for free is nice since prime itself keeps going up.
One of my favorite podcasts is listed on there as "Ad Free" so I'll try it out. I doubt the player is nearly as nice as Overcast, but I like the idea of not having to stop what I'm doing to skip the ads every 15 minutes.