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Amazon Said to Plan Music-Streaming Service for its Echo Speaker

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday August 30 2016, @08:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the turn-it-up-to-11 dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

A music service exclusive to owners of the Amazon Echo at half the price of competitors?

Amazon wants to launch a music subscription service that would be half the cost of rival services and run only on its Echo smart speaker, according to Recode.

The service would offer unlimited, ad-free music for $4 to $5 a month, half what Spotify and Apple Music charge, sources told the site. The internet retail giant would like to launch the service as early as next month but has yet to finalize deals with the major recording labels, sources told the site.

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Amazon already offers an Amazon Music service as part of its $99 Amazon Prime annual subscription package, but subscribers have access to a limited catalog of music.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by WizardFusion on Tuesday August 30 2016, @01:20PM

    by WizardFusion (498) on Tuesday August 30 2016, @01:20PM (#395250) Journal

    I agree, I have over 180gb of MP3s (not a lot compared to some people) some of which I can't get anymore. It either doesn't exist or is only available in very select places.

    That's the other issue here, some albums will only be available in some countries.

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