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Re:Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees by sokoloff on Monday November 14, 2022 @11:49AM (#33596902)
When Amazon Music Unlimited was an attempted thing, that was a direct path to monetization that basically only happens if you have Alexa/Echo widely deployed. Otherwise, it seems a tenuous link to increasing sales in retail.

(I say "was" because they recently rolled part of it out as a Prime benefit a couple of weeks ago, but I can't figure out the exact difference between unlimited and what's included in Prime [and don't care enough to chase it down], but they are still offering a $9/mo unlimited offering, so there must be some difference.)

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Re:Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees by bryanlarsen on Monday November 14, 2022 @12:06PM (#33597191)
The difference is that on Prime it's radio-style only. If you ask for a specific song you get a playlist of songs like the one you requested which may or may not include the song you asked for.

A massive limitation for some people, but it fits my usage.

It was perfect timing for me. Google just massively raised their prices for Youtube family so I was looking for alternatives.

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Re:Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees by ChildOfChaos on Monday November 14, 2022 @12:10PM (#33597270)
The one that is included in prime is basically like spotify free without the ads.

You can only play in shuffle mode.

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