Amazon Music Archives

Amazon Music extends free streaming

24/11/2019

Amazon Music extends free streaming to the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android and also to FireTV devices. Amazon Music customers who do not yet have a Prime membership, or a subscription to Amazon Music Unlimited, can now listen to an ad-supported selection of top playlists and thousands of stations for free on their favourite devices. Previously only available to customers on Echo devices, today’s news expands access to customers using the Amazon Music […]

Yamaha rolls out MusicCast and Amazon Music update

Yamaha adds Alexa to MusicCast products

08/11/2019

Yamaha adds Alexa to MusicCast products and integrates Amazon Music and Deezer streaming services according to a recent announcement by its home audio division. From the 31st October over 15 current home audio products, including wireless speakers, AV receivers, sound bars and a wireless turntable, will receive a free firmware update to enable deeper integration with Amazon services and devices. Amazon Music joins the existing lineup of built-in options offered through Yamaha devices, which includes […]

Get an Echo Dot for $0.99 with Amazon Music

28/10/2019

Get an Echo Dot for $0.99 with Amazon Music Unlimited when you subscribe for 1 month with Auto-renewal. The usual list price is $57.98 but with the deal it works out to $8.98 saving you $49.00 (85%). To sign up for this offer go here. Amazon Echo Dot features Fabric design and improved speaker for richer and louder sound Voice control your music – Stream songs from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, Sirius XM, and […]

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Amazon Music Review

24/10/2019

Amazon’s first started selling digital music in 2008 and became the first music store to sell music with digital rights management (DRM) from many of the major record companies. Streaming started with a forerunner of Amazon Prime in 2014 and Amazon Music Unlimited, its full catalogue streaming service was launched in late 2016.

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Sony prepares for launch of 360 Reality Audio

19/10/2019

Sony prepares for launch of 360 Reality Audio later in the autumn and announces partnerships to deliver its immersive audio experience with leading streamers – Amazon, Deezer, nugs.net, TIDAL and Napster. Sony’s immersive audio experience utilising object-based spatial audio technology will be launched later this autumn to listeners in Europe, the US with an initial release of approximately 1,000 songs in this brand-new format from artists such as Billy Joel, Bob Dylan and Pharrell Williams […]

Amazon Music joins Spotify on Apple TV

11/10/2019

Amazon Music joins Spotify on Apple TV with a new app which runs on Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD running tvOS 12.0 and later. Amazon is the latest streamer to be added to Apple TV after Spotify created an Apple TV app to add to its existing support for TV platforms including Android TV, Samsung Tizen, Amazon Fire TV and Roku. Available now, customers can download the Amazon Music app from the App […]

Amazon Devices Event - September 2019 launch products

Amazon launches new Echo smart speakers

04/10/2019

Amazon launches new Echo smart speakers ranging from an upgraded Echo through to the Echo Studio which is capable of lossless streaming with its 24-bit DAC and 330W amp. In addition, Amazon announced a range of new Alexa enabled devices at its Amazon Devices Event such the Echo Dot with clock, the Echo Show 8 and Echo Buds to add to the Alexa ecosystem. The new Echo devices are available for pre-order now and will […]