Amazon Music Launch, now lots of Music for streaming. 

What is the price?

Well Amazon has thrown in with other music options for a “subsidized free” music service. I think it will have a big impact on users in the “Try it, I already have it Market”.

Amazon Adds Ad-Free Music Streaming To Prime SubscriptionsSeattle — Amazon unveiled its Amazon Prime music-streaming service, a million-song-strong service that is both free and ad-free to subscribers of the e-tailer’s $99/year subscription-based Prime shipping service…

I loaded this up on my iPad this morning and the music selection is decent. It was a good idea for them to add this as a service and to include it into the prime account. I wonder what it will cost them. It would appear with the Prime increase in price this looks like they are budgeting only a few dollars of usage per user, per month.The interface is very two years ago. I recently tried out the beats format, you know that service Apple paid 3 Billion dollars for.  Amazing; smooth setup, nice interface on working out what you like or may like and great quality sound playback. I cannot say that for Prime. Beats at an annual cost $99 a year the same amount as Amazon has for free delivery!

I am still a fan of Pandora. There issue is that it is extremely hard to consolidate music stations and they limit you to 100 stations which I feel is just not necessary. If they fixed that and increased their library on the stations then they’ll survive this increased competition.

Now we need an app that can consolidate these services into one interface.