Amazon Music: Songs & Podcasts

Okay I love this app but there is a few things that I think they could improve so I will split this into two sections, one where I talk about the good stuff, and one for recommendations. CATEGORY:GOOD STUFF This app is amazing in so many different ways!! First of all, I love the fact that you have family plans, bc it is very annoying if you don’t have it but your whole family likes to use it bc you can’t always listen to music if somebody else is, but shortly after getting the regular plan we switched to the family plan and it was amazing! You have so many options depending on how many people are using it and what your needs are. I also love that you have the chose to make playlist public or private bc my regular playlist with all my fav songs is private but sometimes I like making playlists for like calming music and stress relief, or certain playlists other people might like the access to so I make those public. Also, I love that the app makes playlists for you based on what you listen too. You can also put your playlist on shuffle mode, which just plays the songs in random order so you can actually listen to all your songs if you have a long playlist like me. also you can put settings on there if you have a young child so that they cannot add explicit songs to their playlist. CATEGORY 2: RECOMMENDATIONS I only have one recommendation, which is to not automatically switch the music to car mode while I’m in the car. I think you should put it as a button at the top so if someone is driving they can click it if they want it but for me usually I just put my playlist on shuffle and don’t need to worry!!! Love this app def recommend

I’ve been trying hi-res music players for sometime trying to find one that fully takes advantage of my home audio system. Essentially it’s a 2ch setup with left and right sub boxes with two twelves in each, receiving 500 watts total. On top of each of those is a box with an 8 inch sub sealed in the bottom with a once inch silk dome above those and a 6 1/2 mid range on top. The tweeter is at ear level. The eight inch get 150 watts a piece in stereo with the six an a half inch taking over around 200 on up to the tweeter hand off at 2khz. A 125 watt two channel high passed at 200hz drives the mid/tweeters with a passive 2 way crossover at 2k. After trying many different Hi-Res players I had settled on Windows media player playing downloaded 328k mp3 and cd downloads. After trying AmazonHD I couldn’t go back. This is the first time I’ve been able to achieve the high volume listening I enjoy without that slightly distorted top end, sibilance perhaps. With this app I can crank it to feel it levels without ever a hint of that distorted top end. I can easily push the drivers and amps to beyond their limits and still not hear that distortion. I can play anything else and and it sounds pretty good but that “magic” is gone. I guess that really sums up why I’m willing to pay $16 and change every month on this player. It add’s that magic that is the reason I listen in the first place. Going back it still sounds fine but it doesn’t make me want to listen for hours and hours. On top of that this it is the most intuitive player I’ve ever used. Right off the batt I felt like I’d been using it all along. The selection is outstanding, the sound quality is the best I’ve heard. The dynamics of 24bit are obvious to me. It spoiled me to anything else.

I have previously given this app 5 stars but now its 1 star. There are a lot of issues and despite the frequent updates the issues are never resolved. I subscribe to unlimited and My biggest complaint is music I have saved or downloaded will just disappear. I can see the song or band or album but it went from bright white to a faded white and when I click on it something pops up telling me it’s no longer available. I call these ghost songs. However, these ghost songs are still available because if I search for the same thing I am able to add the music again. Doesn’t seem too tricky until I go to play something on shuffle and all these ghost songs don’t play and the App doesn’t skip over them. It is sometimes entire catalogs by artists. So I can’t just go add the ghost songs back in and swipe swipe swipe to delete the ghost songs. I have to click on every single individual song. Select delete. Then select “are you sure you want to delete?” For EVERY. SINGLE. SONG. when the app switched to HD music I’m taking HUNDREDS of ghosts songs have popped up. It’s so tedious. The app will randomly shut down. I can click next a few times and quite often the song it shows and the song playing are not the same. It’s like the screen hasn’t caught up to it being a new song. It has a lot of glitches. I have used this app for years and it’s such a pain to move my music over to a new app but there are other music providers for the same price who offer a more reliable product.