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Amazon Launches Ad-Supported Music Service to Echo Owners

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

MrPlow writes:

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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/

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Appalbarry on Monday April 22 2019, @02:37PM (1 child)

    by Appalbarry (66) on Monday April 22 2019, @02:37PM (#833392) Journal

    So, basically, Amazon has invented commercial radio.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday April 22 2019, @06:03PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Monday April 22 2019, @06:03PM (#833473) Journal

    Except that it requires their proprietary service to enable. (And if you want it on Echo, their proprietary hardware). Commercial radio, in its purest form (at least in the United States) only requires one to have an open-standard receiver that one can build out of kit-component parts.

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