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posted by mrpg on Monday April 22 2019, @02:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the ok-alexa-sing-it! dept.

Submitted via IRC for ErkleLives

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/


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  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday April 22 2019, @05:43PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Monday April 22 2019, @05:43PM (#833465) Journal

    For all my arguments that systems exist and artists and contracted record companies deserve payment, I agree with you. Once one has paid for the content that mode or method of storage is irrelevant once purchased, and if I'm willing to invest in the software and storage then that's my expense to preserve it. (Which is a little inconsistent on my part.... In theory a company would deserve compensation for content with greater resolution/bandwidth. But I'm willing to be inconsistent there, in light of past decisions that seem amenable to time and format shifting).

    The copyright and DRM issues would indeed be nice to avoid, all around. But I also feel that the artist (and that label for that matter) have invested of themselves to produce the music and therefore do deserve compensation if I intend to keep a copy of it. I want to see artists (some, not every one) be able to earn a living, and because I'm willing to pay for the music I don't have much of a problem thinking that others should have to as well. But I'm starting to become hopelessly old-fashioned.

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