Submission + - Amazon takes away more than it gives with Prime Music change
ayjaym writes: I've always justified my Prime subscription with the Prime Music benefit; I listen on the train to and from work. Sure, you only had two million tracks and not the 100 million in the full Amazon Music catalogue, but that still left a lot of great music to explore.
Until today.
Amazon gives, and Amazon takes away. What they give is access to the full 100 million tracks available in Amazon Music. What they take away is that now all of these — including the albums that were available on Prime Music previously — can only be played in random order. You can't skip forward or back while playing a song either. And, if you like to listen to classical music you now have the travesty of having great works chopped up and reshuffled into a random play order. Over Roll Beethoven!.
So I've cancelled my Prime subscription. I was starting to get nervous anyway recently when Prime Music started asking for permission to access nearby Bluetooth devices 'to improve the experience'. When someone on Reddit tried to find out why this permission was suddenly required, Amazon support hung up on him.
I wish the big tech companies were less arrogant, but I get that we are the product these days. Still, Mr. Bezos will have a tiny bit less cash to finance his penis substitute rockets now. I can get a small amount of satisfaction from knowing that, at any rate.
Until today.
Amazon gives, and Amazon takes away. What they give is access to the full 100 million tracks available in Amazon Music. What they take away is that now all of these — including the albums that were available on Prime Music previously — can only be played in random order. You can't skip forward or back while playing a song either. And, if you like to listen to classical music you now have the travesty of having great works chopped up and reshuffled into a random play order. Over Roll Beethoven!.
So I've cancelled my Prime subscription. I was starting to get nervous anyway recently when Prime Music started asking for permission to access nearby Bluetooth devices 'to improve the experience'. When someone on Reddit tried to find out why this permission was suddenly required, Amazon support hung up on him.
I wish the big tech companies were less arrogant, but I get that we are the product these days. Still, Mr. Bezos will have a tiny bit less cash to finance his penis substitute rockets now. I can get a small amount of satisfaction from knowing that, at any rate.
