Amazon Prime Music

[srvy]

Just received this in a e-mail. yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh

Dear Customers,

A little more than 3 years ago we launched Prime Instant Video, adding unlimited streaming of thousands of movies and TV shows to the existing Prime benefit of Free Two-Day Shipping. It has turned out to be one of the most important things we've done for Amazon Prime members. Today, we are doing it again for music — introducing Prime Music, the newest benefit of Prime membership.

With Prime Music, you can listen ad-free to over a million songs and hundreds of expert-programmed Prime Playlists. Prime Music includes tens of thousands of albums from top artists like Daft Punk, P!nk, Bruno Mars, Blake Shelton, The Lumineers, Bruce Springsteen and Madonna. And we'll be adding more music all the time. Here's a list of popular artists in Prime Music.

In designing Prime Music, we wanted to remove the barriers between you and the music you love. We removed cost. You can listen to the entire Prime Music catalog for free — it's included in your Prime membership. We removed interruptions. Don't worry about having your music constantly disrupted by ads... you won't hear any. We removed listening restrictions. Choose exactly what song to listen to, repeat your favorite song over and over again, or download music to your phone or tablet to listen offline.

Finally, we removed one more barrier — deciding what to listen to. Just play any of the hundreds of Prime Playlists our music experts have created for you. Check out the Prime Playlists here.

Prime members in the US can start listening to Prime Music today at www.primemusic.com. Kindle Fire HD/HDX devices will get Prime Music in an automatic, over-the-air update. You can also download the latest Amazon Music app in the Android and iOS appstores.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

I've honestly found myself watching much more TV than I did in the past. We went from 200 channels to 20 and my TV watching doubled.

I attribute this to the fact that when we had satellite, I NEVER watched network television. The news and football games, that was it.

I've really gotten into "Criminal Minds" and "Psych" both of which are syndicated on our only local station (ION). I completely missed both of them the first time around so it's given me quite a bit of content to catch up on.

My mother-in-law is the real winner here. She watched more TV than any of us because she watches at night before bed. She was the most resistant to getting rid of satellite and now she watches more Netflix and Amazon than the rest of us in the house combined.

We definitely watch more TV since getting rid of Dish and going Netflix/XBMC only. The streams are pretty crappy sometimes, but SportsDevil on XBMC will usually deliver sporting events reliably.

Being able to sit down and binge watch a show is SOOOOO much more enjoyable to me than having to wait on episodes with a week between viewings.

I've talked to a lot of younger people, and these services are changing the way they view TV as well in much the same way that iPods changed albums in the music industry (though strangely in an opposite fashion). Kids basically get into a show, watch the whole thing on Netflix, then move on to another show to obsess over. The days of having 6-10 shows that you watch throughout the week are going away, imo, and services like Netflix with the way they release their own shows (release a whole season at once) recognize this.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Parker,

How do you deal with the "loss" of say live college sports? I love watching Big XII (KSU) and most of the games I want to watch are on some sort 'tiered' channel.

Haven't had to deal with it yet. I imagine it might be a setback for me since a lot of Iowa's games are on the B10 network.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by NewChief

We definitely watch more TV since getting rid of Dish and going Netflix/XBMC only. The streams are pretty crappy sometimes, but SportsDevil on XBMC will usually deliver sporting events reliably.

Being able to sit down and binge watch a show is SOOOOO much more enjoyable to me than having to wait on episodes with a week between viewings.

I've talked to a lot of younger people, and these services are changing the way they view TV as well in much the same way that iPods changed albums in the music industry (though strangely in an opposite fashion). Kids basically get into a show, watch the whole thing on Netflix, then move on to another show to obsess over. The days of having 6-10 shows that you watch throughout the week are going away, imo, and services like Netflix with the way they release their own shows (release a whole season at once) recognize this.

That's exactly what's going on in our house. The MiL finished Carnivale and is starting in on Deadwood...