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Amazon today announced the launch of a free, ad-supported music service in the U.S. that will be available to anyone who wants to play free music on their Echo speaker.
Until today, Echo owners who wanted to stream music from Amazon could either pay for an annual Prime membership for access to Prime Music or they could pay $3.99 per month to stream from Amazon Music Unlimited (or $9.99/month to stream on non-Echo devices, as well.)
The new service has the same catalog as Prime Music, which today has just over two million songs. Amazon Music Unlimited, meanwhile, has 50 million songs.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/18/amazon-music-echo-ads/
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday April 22 2019, @03:24AM
GooTube is following suit:
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2019/04/amazon-google-offer-free-music-streaming-speaker.html [iphonehacks.com]
Apple and Spotify are way ahead of them, especially in terms of paying subscribers.
Also, Amazon and Google are playing nice, for the moment:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/04/18/google-amazon-agree-bring-youtube-fire-tv-owners-no-echo-deal/3499157002/ [usatoday.com]
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