Amazon is of their streaming music service. That, as of December 18th, customers can no longer use the to upload their own music files to later stream through Amazon’s apps and devices. Amazon has long offered a free and paid option for customers to upload their own music to Amazon’s cloud. Doing so allowed customers to stream those songs through Amazon’s various apps and devices, alongside tracks that were purchased from Amazon or including in one of their music subscriptions.
The free option allowed customers to upload up to 250 songs, while the $24.99 per year paid option allowed up to 250,000 songs to be stored. While customers can no longer upload new songs, they’ll still have access to existing uploads for a while. Those who are using the free option will still be able to stream their upload tracks until January 2019. Those who are subscribed to the paid music storage plan will be able to continue streaming their music for as long as they continue paying the annual fee.
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If the storage plan is allowed to expire without being renewed, you will not be able to re-start the subscription and will permanently lose access to all stored music. Music that customers have purchased through Amazon will remain accessible. This change only affects tracks that were imported from a PC. If you’re looking for a new way to access your own music through Alexa devices, and seem like viable options. Plex also has an Alexa skill that you can use and there are unofficial skills that can play music uploaded to Google Play.
The work around is to put the music in a playlist. Yesterday i uploaded a cd of barry white. Asked for the album and asked for individual songs and no go. Put the entire cd into a playlist called Barry White and google home could play it and play it in order of the album. The word next worked. However I cannot ask for a specific song within the playlist. I have 2 million free songs with Prime so I am happy with alexa but there are some specialty albums that i had put in the free 250 song upload.
I am going to miss that. Regarding the 250,000 song paid membership, I may be reading this wrong, but on the Amazon site it states “While you remain a paid member, you retain the ability to upload music and renew your subscription.” It also says “New subscriptions will be accepted until January 15, 2018. You can upgrade your Amazon Music storage plan, until that time.” It sounds like if you already have the paid plan (and don’t let it expire) you are ok. If you don’t have it, now is probably the time to get it before 1/15/18 and it is no longer an option. Sadly no option to renew after your year runs out. Mine ran out today and Amazon removed all of my uploaded tracks! Luckily a CS Rep was able to extend me 2 days while they work out the bugs and get my songs back, however they sent me an email this morning saying all songs would be deleted in a years time!
I’ve spent days (maybe weeks? Makes me ill thinking about it) hours upon hours of time making sure all my Filenames, Tags, Etc were all in order and uploaded my entire music collection because Amazon Music on my Echo was the best thing I’d ever had for my music collection. I’ve bought multiple Amazon Echos, multiple Echo Dots, a Tablet all so that I could have my music collection wherever I went. Now Amazon is doing this. I think the uninformed public really needs to understand the legalities of cloud based media, not just music but photo and video as well. You NEVER REALLY OWN or have COMPLETE control over anything you upload to ANY SERVICE, be it Amazon, Google or whomever.
You may think you have control just because its “yours” but you are at the financial, legal, and political whims of any corporation. They can and will do what they want to do in THEIR best interest.
For Example, I laugh (to myself) when I see consumers “purchasing” cloud based movies for convenience(and the “coolness” factor) assuming they will own them for life time to rethink that! Still they only way to have complete control over your music/photo/video is to have PHYSICAL MEDIA, old school? Yes, but safe.
I think the uninformed public really needs to understand the legalities of cloud based media, not just music but photo and video as well. You NEVER REALLY OWN or have COMPLETE control over anything you upload to ANY SERVICE, be it Amazon, Google or whomever. You may think you have control just because its “yours” but you are at the financial, legal, and political whims of any corporation. Example, I laugh (to myself) when I see consumers “purchasing” cloud based movies for convenience(and the “coolness” factor) assuming they will own them for life time to rethink that! Still they only way to have complete control over your music/photo/video is to have PHYSICAL MEDIA, old school? Yes, but safe.They can and will do what they want to do in THEIR best interest. While I’m relieved to hear that as long as I continue to keep my subscription, I can continue to upload and play all of my music.
However this still pisses me off knowing that Amazon (or any shitty company) can and will put something in your hands only to take it away whenever they feel like it. This, the Cloud Drive, and other services and it’s wrong. I’ve spent hours and hours (10’s? 100’s?) organizing and uploading my entire music collection because Amazon and their Echo devices (which I’ve purchased specifically for my music collection mind you) were the ultimate way to play my music anywhere I wanted to be. After this, Google may be a better option? How do you use Google on the Echo?
Google changed their music playing not long ago, because last year I could play my music with “ok Google” on my phone. Now it doesn’t work.
I have to do it manually on my phone and then it plays. Amazon Alexa is driving me nuts also.
My wife has the Dot on her account. But Prime is my account and she is a family member. She cannot play Amazon Prime music and must “change account” to mine to do so. And if I want to play it, the voice recognition won’t do it, I also must “change account”.
This voice thing is still in its infancy it seems. Maybe someone will come up with a skill to work with Box.com or Dropbox and we upload our music that way to play? My complaint is different. I admit, I didn’t read everything on this page, but it appears most people are wanting to upload their own mp3’s to an Amazon player. My complaint is the reverse. I don’t want to stream anything, but I’d rather have the file my own device.
As of a short time ago, I can no longer download mp3 files that I PURCHASED on Amazon, to my own device, to play them on my own player. I don’t want to be forced to use theirs! It would be like going to a car dealer and buying a new car, and being told I may only drive MY car on THEIR parking lot. I’m glad I got your reply.
I tried again, and it worked. I don’t know how it happened, but it didn’t work before. Before, when I would select an mp3 to purchase, the page that normally showed a “play” button AND a “download” button, only had the “play”.
The only option I could find to listen to the song was to play it on Amazon’s player. But when I saw your reply, I tried again. I “risked” $1.29 to buy an mp3, and I was back in business. I got the song on my smartphone, and played it on my own player. Hmm don’t know what happened, but it’s ok now! One more time.
I looked on Amazon, under My Account, and My Orders. Had to sign in (even though my name already appeared at the top ?) Then, looked under “digital”. Clicked on today’s song order. Clicked the option to download (yes, it was there, but not on the page where I placed the order). The file that came to my device was not mp3, but a “zip” file. It contained BOTH mp3’s I purchased, the one that I already got with no problems (so now I have a duplicate of that) and the second one. I know a way to get it.
It’s pretty squirrelly, if you ask me. Why not give me the same “download” button for the second song? I’m not sure I understand completely where you are trying to download it from. I’m using the Amazon Music program on my PC, that’s the only way I know of to download or upload my music from/to Amazon.
I’m assuming you’re on some mobile device? Happy to know that you were able to figure it out and download it anyways. I’m sure if you ever had a problem, you could email Amazon Customer Service and they’d be able to help you out.
I’m almost certain they’d never take away the ability to download your music, otherwise people would stop purchasing it and go back to downloading elsewhere. Yes, I’m working strictly from my smartphone/tablet.
(It’s a Huawei Honor X2, Android.) I’m not using any Amazon app or software, just going to their website to buy a song, and everything else is my own. And yes, I was thinking the same thing. Why would they pass up a chance to sell stuff, even if I don’t want to buy Prime, or get a different music player. I’ll still buy an mp3 once in a while.
And now, I’ve solved the puzzle about actually getting the download. I just don’t know why it has to BE a puzzle! ITunes has failings: however, rather than improve on them, Amazon seems to be intent on emulating them, and making them worse.
Amazon has a brilliant game-changing thing in Alexa, but trying to integrate my music with Amazon in order to access through Alexa is a nightmare. I have tried to “upload” my music using the Amazon Music on my PC – but the circle just spins away. After about 8 hours, I have tried to cancel it, to no avail.
Still spinning away. I try to close the program and reopen, butstill spinning away. The music it has uploaded (from my time with Amazon Music Manager) – it just messes it all up: part albums, different albums, etc. It seems to me there are two types of music users: those who are not really interested in the ownership and just want to access as much as possible from wherever (eg Spotify users); and those (like me) who have purchased hundreds or thousands of albums in the past (and continue to do so), and want to catalogue, organise, create playlists, etc. Both want to use Alexa – but the second type of music user is being ignored. If I wanted to be the first type, I’d subscribe to a radio station.
But I’m not: I like the feeling of ownership, control, cataloging, etc of PURCHASED music. It frustrates me that the uploading in the Amazon Music program no longer works properly, and as a result I am resolute in not subscribing any further than my Prime level, and sticking with iTunes: the Least Worst Option for music librarying. I get the fact that companies, artists etc need to monetise: I just wish Amazon, iTunes etc were clear in their intents. They tell me I can “upload”, but I can’t, but there is no real truthful explanation anywhere. Basically – if you have an organised purchased music library, forget about any further support, or satisfactory cloud-based solution – or full Alexa / Google Home integration. There – at least I hope I’ve saved some music users a lot of time.
I’ll put up with Alexa controlling a messy, disjointed, incomplete library, and use iTunes offline and on my iPhone (and possibly my own server) when I want complete library function. There’s only one solution and I don’t like it. Obviously, these music streaming services have; in symphony done a bait and switch on all of us. The “Great” Spotify will only allow you to have 10,000 songs in your library. As for Deezer, one of these giants will swallow them up and then you can forget about lossless. These guys know we can get software to move our playlists from one service to another but there is always problems with tagging some songs correctly, missing songs and those songs that at not available on the new service so.f. This was a terrible idea to begin with.
We all just got so lazy and cheap, we jumped on this. Now the “devils” are getting their due.
Hi, i was wondering if anyone has had luck with the amazon music app for the mac? I have been trying to download music that i bought off of amazon and I just can't do it. I feel as if I am being locked out of the 500 songs i have bought.
Voice over does not see anything in the app. I have also tried to use the older amazon mp3 downloader but it won't work anymore. So has anyone gotten the program to work? If not does amazon have an email address that i can use to contact them? Thanks Forum:.
User Options. or to post comments. I recently tried to get music from my amazon cloud player using my laptop with Windows 7 and was not successful.
I was wondering how I would now access my cloud player music now that it is called amazon music. I am an amazon prime member and noticed an app for my Iphone called something like amazon music with prime and put it on my phone. I was pleasantly surprised to find that all my cloud music showed up immediately on my Iphone. It was a free app though I pay $99/year for prime membership. I don't have a Mac so can't comment on that part of it. HTH. or to post comments #2 Amazon Music Submitted by Rob on 1 December, 2014.
Amazon Music for Windows and Mac seems very inaccessible but as Juniper says above, the Amazon Music app for iPhone and iPad is fully accessible and I have been able to access the music I have bought through this app. I am using Windows 8.1 and can still use the old Amazon MP3 downloader. It may be worth reinstalling the latest version of Amazon MP3 downloader to see if this resolves the problem. The option to use the old MP3 downloader still shows when I buy or download content from Amazon. or to post comments #3 The amazon music issue Submitted by gallagher123123 on 23 January, 2015.