Ben's Monthly Amazon Rant

[Ben]

My Amazon rant for the month: I'm beginning to hate Amazon Music. It just in the last couple of days went through my offline music again and wiped out dozens of songs in my various playlists. Of course every time they do it, it also wonks the playlist so when it gets to the pulled (greyed out) song, it simply stops playing the playlist instead of moving on to the next available song.

Undoubtedly they were Amazon Prime songs, but I'm getting sick of paying for Prime, being offered songs via Prime Music, then randomly having those songs pulled. They end up still being offered "free" in Prime, but from a different album. So I either have to go through all the pulled songs individually, choose their new prime source, then one at a time add them back to my playlists, or what I've been doing now, just spending $20-$30 to buy them all which keeps Amazon's hands off of them.

I think I'm going to just set aside like 4-6 hours at some point and pull all my downloaded music from the Amazon player and just move it to the Samsung music player on my phone, which always gives me zero issues.


My sneaking suspicion is that Amazon just wants everyone to quit using Prime Music and switch to Unlimited so they can charge everyone more.

[230RN]

"My sneaking suspicion is that Amazon just wants everyone to quit using Prime Music and switch to Unlimited so they can charge everyone more."

You're just being paranoid.  Merchants don't pull shady stuff like that just to make you part with more money.  I'll bet you even think there are people in the company who get bonuses for thinking up nefarious scams.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

[Andiron]

I pay for spotify, and even with that I've considered going back to wholesale piracy of the stuff I like, and making playlists on winamp like it's 1999.  Can't imagine what it's like on Amazon or youtube red

Software as a service is gay.

[makattak]

My solution is that I don't use the playlists anymore. I just ask Alexa to play a specific song and then play other songs like that.

And skip the crappy ones that may arise.

[Ben]

I pay for spotify, and even with that I've considered going back to wholesale piracy of the stuff I like, and making playlists on winamp like it's 1999.  Can't imagine what it's like on Amazon or youtube red

Software as a service is gay.

That's kinda where I am. After recently reviving my Creative Zen player, I'm remembering how much cleaner having an "isolated" player is. Amazon Music is absolutely convenient for finding music, but  I think I'm going to spend a little time to start moving the music elsewhere.

If  I could play online music everywhere, it wouldn't be as big of a deal, but most of the day when I'm listening to music, I'm out farting around on the farm and out of wireless range, and music eats into my phone's data plan (when I even have a 4G signal available), so I rely on offline playlists.

[grampster]

I just turn the radio on and I have 4 or 5 stations that play all sorts of music.  It's also free.

[Ben]

I just turn the radio on and I have 4 or 5 stations that play all sorts of music.  It's also free.

Sure, if you want the state and the commies to pick the songs you listen to.  

[230RN]

grampster's just age-virtue-signaling again. I know how to spot that kind of thing.

Actually, the Commies came up with some pretty good music.  So did the Polacks and 'Spanics and Frogs and Krauts.

Brit music is pretty insipid, like their cuisine food.

Now there I go, culture-virtue-signaling again.

"Thou shalt not rip."

Now there I go, moral-virtue-signaling again.

[TechMan]

Ben:

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[Hawkmoon]

If  I could play online music everywhere, it wouldn't be as big of a deal, but most of the day when I'm listening to music, I'm out farting around on the farm and out of wireless range, and music eats into my phone's data plan (when I even have a 4G signal available), so I rely on offline playlists.

There must be a player app, and you can store a lot of music on a 64GB microSD card.

[Hawkmoon]

"Thou shalt not rip."

Now there I go, moral-virtue-signaling again.

Which commandment is that again?

[Ben]

There must be a player app, and you can store a lot of music on a 64GB microSD card.

There is, and the one I was using was called Amazon Music. It's a pain in the ass to recreate multiple playlists with hundreds of songs on a different app. which is why I liked offline mode with Amazon until they started screwing with my downloaded music there. Now I have to go through the pain in the ass if I don't want to use Amazon as my main player.

[Andiron]

That's kinda where I am. After recently reviving my Creative Zen player, I'm remembering how much cleaner having an "isolated" player is. Amazon Music is absolutely convenient for finding music, but  I think I'm going to spend a little time to start moving the music elsewhere.

If  I could play online music everywhere, it wouldn't be as big of a deal, but most of the day when I'm listening to music, I'm out farting around on the farm and out of wireless range, and music eats into my phone's data plan (when I even have a 4G signal available), so I rely on offline playlists.

That's exactly where I'm at.  I MISS having a playlist of stuff I picked, in the order I want it.  I really notice when I'm running on a trail vs a treadmill.  It's not a big deal to dick around with my phone on a treadmill but it really messes with my zen and stride outdoors.   Being in the Midwest sucks for many reasons, but at least we've got 4G pretty much everywhere flat.  That said,  You can totally download everything you like on Spotify and listen to it wherever.  Got a lot of mileage out of that in Allegheny National Forest.

[230RN]

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