Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Amazon releases its Spotify-killer – with ”tens of millions of songs” – IDG.see

In the day of release, Amazon finally its standalone music service to compete with Spotify and the Apple Music.

Amazon Music Unlimited is said to have "tens of millions of songs" in the directory and the three skivbolagsjättarna Sony, Universal and Warner are also on board. The subscription costs ten dollars a month and the lands thus in the exactly the same price as competitors.

But Amazon’s music service seems to largely be about forging stronger ties with existing customers, the that have Amazon Prime get music service for eight dollars a month. The Echo, Amazon’s smart speaker with built-in AI assistant, it will even cheaper away with only four dollars a month. Then you can certainly only use the service on an Echo, Echo Dot or Amazon Tap.

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Even a familjeabonnemang is on time. There shall be up to six people to be able to stream at the same time, against a monthly fee of 15 dollars.

at the same time releasing Amazon is a brand new version of its musikapp for IOS, Android, Fire and desktop. The support for both the former music service Prime Music and new Music Unlimited and to download songs and play them when you are offline. In addition, the app support for Amazon’s voice-activated AI assistant, Alexa.

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Something Music Unlimited so long as the lack of exclusive titles. Steve Boom, that is over Amazon’s musikprodukter, says to The Verge that they “have not taken a position on exclusive material” yet.

Music Unlimited released initially only in the united states, but will be launched in Europe later in the year. It is unclear when the service reaches Sweden, among the first countries outside north America, mentioned the Uk, Germany and Austria.

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